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  • Librarians (Identity Providers): Share ideas that help organisations that manage user identities and provide access to online content and services. This includes improving the experience for students and researchers.

  • Publishers (Service Providers): Share ideas for organisations that offer content and services.


Guidance on using this portal

Status Feedback wanted
Workspace Librarians
Created by Guest
Created on Mar 16, 2026

Ability to copy existing permission set

USE CASE:
We sometimes need to ‘duplicate’ a permission set when established clients need to change group/statistics OR purchases a new resource that needs to be 'limited' to a new group.

CURRENT FUNCTIONALITY:
There is no ‘duplicate this permission set’ option. The only way to create a copy is to make a new permission set, temporarily mark it ‘default’ and then 'cascade' all the resources. The problem is this will add the resources to 'all' default permission sets and the client could have multiple default permission sets and/or sub-organisations with different permission sets.

The danger of this is if the client had sub-organisations it could have unintended consequences (adding unsubscribed resources to some permission sets).

ENHANCEMENT REQUEST:
Add a function to "copy" an existing permission set:

  • Select a permission set from the ‘permission sets’ screen,

  • An actions toggle appears

  • Click ‘create a copy of this permission set’.

  • A similar screen to the ‘add’ permission set opens so you can name the new permission set. However, all the same resources are pre-allocated and don't need to be manually allocated (time consuming) or cascaded (risky).

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? No
Idea type Time saver, Day-to-day tasks/actions improvements
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