Role Profiles Enhancement
When using role profiles, it would be nice if the profile could create a link to the user(s) with roles defined by the profile. Then, if you want to modify the profile, the change updates all users in the profile. Currently, you'd have to update the role profile and each individual user.
Sarah Butash
shared this idea
It will be possible to maintain ongoing link between the role profile and the user record, so that you can use the template to assign a predefined set of roles to a user, and any further changes to templates will automatically affect the linked users' allowed roles.
Note - multiple profiles may be assigned to a user.
It will be possible to view the list of profiles an account is liked to for inheriting its roles, and to remove/add more profiles.
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Manu Schwendener
commented
Persistent role templates on the roadmap, but for 2024:
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Manu Schwendener
commented
> Planned
Thank you, Moshe, this is great news
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Humber Libraries
commented
As new Alma clients, this is the enhancement we would like as well.
Lisa (Humber College)
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Manu Schwendener
commented
NERS 7678, open for voting now
"Staff user accounts -- allow proxies and duplication"
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Manu Schwendener
commented
If you can vote in NERS, please consider voting for 7240
"Staff user accounts – allow proxies and duplication"
It's not what Sarah Butash asked for, but it would make working with staff user accounts much easier. -
Deborah Fitchett
commented
A regular use case for us is that we set expiry dates to the roles we give our fixed-term student assistants, but many of them return the following year. Currently we have to manually edit the dates for each of the roles for each of the returning assistants. It would save a lot of time to be able to just update the role, and have the updated expiry dates flow through.
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Patricia Farnan
commented
This is a great idea. Wish I had votes to spare ...
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Natasha Stephan
commented
I added another role profile-related enhancement that may be of interest:
https://ideas.exlibrisgroup.com/forums/308173-alma/suggestions/39813913-merge-roles-and-scopes-when-assigning-two-profiles -
Natasha Stephan
commented
Great idea! This is painful enough in a two-library partnership with 50 staff... I can't imagine how difficult it would be to manage in a consortium with hundreds or thousands of staff. Please consider voting for this enhancement.
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Manu Schwendener
commented
Did not make it to round 2 in NERS; 138 votes, threshold was 250.
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Manu Schwendener
commented
[for those who can vote in NERS: 6402, open for voting at the moment]
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Manu Schwendener
commented
Yes!
In Aleph (from where we'll migrate to Alma) we rely heavily on proxies for staff users (z66). When you update the proxy in Aleph, all staff users linked to that proxy are updated, too.