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Status Research & discovery
Workspace Librarians
Categories Administrators
Created by Guest
Created on Jan 7, 2025

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Read only view of Domain, Schema Editor and Attribute Release settings for Administrators

Currently OAMD allows two types of Admin Roles in the platform, Administrator and Owner. Owner has enhanced access in that it can edit Domain, Schema Editor and Attribute Release settings. Administrators have no access to these areas at all, which is limiting in terms of professional development and improving colleagues understanding of authentication systems, along with troubleshooting attribute release issues.

We would like to suggest either an additional role type to be added to the Administrator Roles along the lines of Admin Plus. This would allow all the current editing permissions associated with the Admin role, however it would also allow read only access to the Domain, Schema Editor and Attribute Release sections of OAMD. This would allow them to see how these sections are configured to aid understanding and troubleshooting, whilst limiting access to configuration that might cause issues if adjusted in error.

Is this currently impacting your ability to use OpenAthens effectively? Yes
Idea type Ease of use of specific or groups of tasks/actions
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  • Guest
    Aug 28, 2026

    I support having more roles as the existing 2 roles are high level.

    If 1 additional role is created, I would have that to be read access to the whole dashboard.

    If 2 additional roles are created, I would have one for read access to the whole dashboard and another just to read Statistics.

    The other option is to have a role with options to check on which portions of the dashboard can have read access or edit access. Something like:

    • Accounts (Read Access / Edit Access)

    • Resources (Read Access / Edit Access)

    • Statistics (Read Access / Edit Access)

    • Preferences (Read Access / Edit Access)

    • Management (Read Access / Edit Access)

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