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johnmcdraper
Occasional Contributor
9 years ago
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New Idea

Add more available roles.

At least one of our inspection templates is for Fagan style reviews, where you have your standard roles of moderator, reader, author, inspector, but additional roles such as observer, auditor, recorder (when we do have meetings to discuss things).

 

While Collaborator eliminates the need for meetings, there are times we could use more than 4 named roles.  Even if the permission for some roles are the same, having the name in place becomes meaningful.   (Like adding the task lead to a review, but as an Observer so it’s clear they are not expected to review anything).     

 

Any other users run into this??

  • MrDubya's avatar
    MrDubya
    Occasional Contributor
    9 years ago

    There was a point where it would have been helpful to add another role beyond the fixed set of moderator, etc. - and due to that limitation, another way we tried to tackle this was to use a participant custom field to identify the function / group each participant was representing, however there is also an issue with that as only the participant can change the value of the field.  I put in a request to allow the review creator to be able to change the values of participant fields if anyone is interested in that. Using a participant field has the advantage of not needing to specify all the configuration / permissions when they don't need to be different than the standard set, but there could be times when you would want that level of flexibility.

  • johnmcdraper's avatar
    johnmcdraper
    Occasional Contributor
    9 years ago

    hehe.  That was our first try to work around the limitation, and we ran into the same issue as you.     I've given your suggestion a Kudos.   Thanks for pointing it out.   :)