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by aaribaud-fgs
05 Apr 2019, 09:27
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Proposal for access level inheritance
Replies: 7
Views: 5578

Re: Proposal for access level inheritance

Tanks brlumen, however the only plugins I could use would be those listed on the official MantisBT site, which yours is not (yet).
by aaribaud-fgs
18 Mar 2019, 13:21
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Proposal for access level inheritance
Replies: 7
Views: 5578

Re: Proposal for access level inheritance

Why the least? That's an arbitrary assumption. Indeed; since access level is implicit rather than explicit, I prefer to err on the conservative side and only grant as few privileges as possible -- knowing that if I want a user to have more rights than (s)he would inherit, then I can just add that u...
by aaribaud-fgs
04 Mar 2019, 07:54
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Proposal for access level inheritance
Replies: 7
Views: 5578

Re: Proposal for access level inheritance

Hi Atrol, You are right that user level is not the only access rights mechanism in Mantis, and that notably, workflow thresholds are not controlled by user level, and espacially not by level ordering, but through a configurable matrix which maps sets of unordered user levels to permissions. It remai...
by aaribaud-fgs
01 Mar 2019, 09:10
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Proposal for access level inheritance
Replies: 7
Views: 5578

Proposal for access level inheritance

SUMMARY This is a proposal for handling project hierarchy in effective access level computation. The original reason why I would like to implement inherited access levels is that I have a use case where access is restricted by default and there is a lot of private projects, sub-projects and sub-sub...