Talk:PubMan Func Spec Visibility

Visibility for item components

Both, "privat" and "audience" can have restriction "embargo", which means, if a user is not the 
owner of an item but has special rights to access the component(s) of this item, the respective 
component(s) are not visible to the user until the embargo time is over.

I assume that this feature would be wanted for "public" as well --Inga 18:17, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

But when component is "public" embargo period has no effect. In the workflow, embargo date imposes audience or private visibility. When embargo period is finished, the visibility is set to Public. --Natasa 07:50, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

[...] a user with user role "privileged viewer" can access the item component and its content

isn't the role "privileged viewer" superfluous, once we have restricted access governed by user groups - thus making the distinction between "private" and "audience" superfluous, too?--Robert 18:20, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

The "privileged viewer" role was introduced before any audience roles was introduced, as we did not have any groups. The scope on which privileged viewer role was introduced before was a "context". The "audience" is a visibility level of a component. Therefore, when we set-up for a component visibility "audience" and define for which user groups is allowed, these user groups in fact are getting a role "privileged viewer" for the appointed component to my understanding.

i'm confused. is audience a role? and didn't the privileged viewers get access for restricted components of type "private"? so i'd maintain, the distinction between "audience" and "private" remains unclera to me.--Robert 17:12, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Note: "privileged viewer" is a role defined for the "coreservice" and not mentioned on ESciDoc_Access_Rights#Description_of_the_roles.2Fgroups_in_the_access_rules_tables --Inga 18:28, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

What is the difference between the item component and its content? --Inga 18:22, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

if with this question is meant what is the "access level difference" -> the difference is the content retrieval e.g. component has properties and metadata. For released items, component metadata (as well as item metadata) are always visible, but not the content. --Natasa 07:50, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

regarding "Depositor (only if owner)": how can a depositor not be owner of an item?--Robert 11:29, 30 March 2009 (UTC)

User may have a role of depositor for a context, but does not have to create ALL items in the context e.g.

  Robert has Role of Depositor for Ctx 1
  Natasa has Role of Depositor for Ctx 2
  Robert creates item1
  Natasa creates item2
  Robert is Depositor (and owner of item1, but not item 2)
  Natasa is Depositor (and owner of item 2, but not item 1)

Hopefully this clarifies --Natasa 07:50, 1 April 2009 (UTC)

Institutional Visibility Scenario

The current scenario only describes how to define access for individual item components. Maybe it's a good idea to restrict the complete concept to this functionality - and to forget about visibility attribute on item level. --Inga 13:54, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

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