New role for Manage Import Profiles
Currently users must have a Cat Admin role or Gen Sys Admin role to be able to Manage Import Profiles (change/add profiles). This also gives them access to the Configuration area of Alma. There should be a role to permit users to Manage Import Profiles that does NOT also give them access to the Alma configuration area. Access to the Alma configuration menu should be separate from the ability to Manage Import Profiles.
Corinna Baksik
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Peter Joseph
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Jamen McGranahan
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as the others have commented, this ability to manage Import Profiles should not be limited to an Administrative role. It would make sense for something like Catalog Manager or Repository Manager be able to manage their own Import Profiles.
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Manu Schwendener commented
6662 in NERS, now open for voting.
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James Hammons
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Why not just add the privilege to the Catalog Manager role?
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Mike Rogers
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As others have mentioned, most of our staff who work with Import Profiles are in the Cataloging Unit and should not have access to configuration. Having a separate role for Import Profiles would solve the problem of simply telling them, "don't touch anything else!"
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AN - UNSW
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Those who manage the importing are not those who need administration access.
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Peta Hopkins commented
I would also suggest that the role for permitting users to manage import profiles could also allow them to use the FRBR/Dedup utility - another cataloguing-related function.
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Bill Constantine commented
I agree. The resources staff need to be able to quickly set up and take down import profiles as we get many types of files coming in from different vendors and they sometimes need slightly different profiles. Yes, import profiles are a very powerful tool and they need to be managed carefully. However resources staff have access to other equally powerful tools eg Normalization Rules and I am sure that each library has worked out how to work with them and which staff have access to them and which ones do not. We should not have to get systems admin staff to have to set up import profiles for profiles we may only use a couple of times for particular files. Systems admin staff should be configuring more long term parameters, eg opening hours, terms of use, etc, etc.