In a consortial landscape a plugin may be used by several institutions. However, each institution may need to use different parameters for a shared plugin.

To give examples, consider these two business cases:
(1) A plugin utililzes proprietary 3rd party software that is licenced per institution. In such case we must ensure that only the institutions that actually pay the licence fee have access to the functionality. The license key would have to be configured per institution.
(2) A PDF migration plugin can take different input parameters which determine the output format to be created (e.g. to PDF/A-1b vs. PDF/A-2b). An institution will want to use these input criteria when defining the mirgration process as part of preservation action from within the institution itself.

While in the case of processes parameters can currently be defined within an institution when scheduling the process (e.g., for fixity task which checksum algorithm should be used), parameters of plugins can currently not be passed to the institutional level. We would like to see this change in order to use plugins in a more flexible and institutional-friendly way. Currently there is no information available if and how this can be achieved for custom plugins. It might also make sense in the case of some bundled plugins, e.g., if an institution would like to use a different DROID max byte scan config than another one.