Bug 27319

Summary:	Authorities permissions
Product:	Koha	Reporter:	Fiona Borthwick <fiona.borthwick>
Component:	Cataloging	Assignee:	Bugs List <koha-bugs>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:	Testopia <testopia>
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P5 - low	CC:	andrew, lucas, m.de.rooy
Version:	Main
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
See Also:	https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=35870 https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=35871
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Description Fiona Borthwick 2020-12-31 13:40:43 UTC

Staff still see the Authorities button on the Koha home screen despite having no access to authorities.

It would appear that you can grant access to editauthorities but there is not a separate permission to allow someone to search and / or select authorities whilst cataloguing.

So a staff login can see the Authorities button on the home screen and can search for these even though they have the editauthorities permission deselected.

Whilst I can see this logic, one of our customers has queried how they can hide the button completely as some staff should never have to work with authorities / cataloguing and this made me think that it might be a good idea to have a separate permission for searching.

Comment 1 Katrin Fischer 2023-07-01 15:37:02 UTC

Maybe we should rename the top level permission to authorities and have edit and view as sub-permissions below? Or edit and remaining permissions?

Comment 2 Lucas Gass (lukeg) 2023-09-25 12:37:10 UTC

(In reply to Katrin Fischer from comment #1)
> Maybe we should rename the top level permission to authorities and have edit
> and view as sub-permissions below? Or edit and remaining permissions?

Yes, this is probably the right way to go!