[Koha] [Koha-devel] How to introduce a new user-permission to Koha?

[Markus Becker]

Hi Jonathan,

thank You very much - i will try this out!

Yours,
Markus

2018-06-13 22:30 GMT+02:00 Jonathan Druart
<jonathan.druart at bugs.koha-community.org>:
> Hi Markus,
>
> Permissions are stored in the tables 'permissions' and 'userflags'
> For instance "tools" is a group of permissions (userflags.flag="tools" with
> a bit=13), and the permissions table will contain the subpermissions.
>
>   select * from permissions where module_bit=13;
> will give your the subpermissions for tools.
>
> To use the script tools/modborrowers.pl (edit patrons in a batch) you will
> need the subpermission edit_patrons of the tools module. If you edit this
> file you will find the following line:
>   flagsrequired   => { tools => "edit_patrons" }
>
> The CAN_* flags in the template are set in C4::Auth
> "CAN_user_tools" means all the "tools" subpermissions
> CAN_user_tools_edit_patrons means the edit_patrons subpermission of the
> "tools" module.
>
> Take a look at
>   commit  f56d6530bc7ea00db0d2b158a8b2667d5ba16a41
>   Bug 16978: Add delete reports user permission
> it added the "reports => delete_reports" subpermission.
>
> Good luck :)
> Hope that makes sense!
>
> Jonathan
>
> On Wed, 13 Jun 2018 at 16:58 Chris Cormack <chrisc at catalyst.net.nz> wrote:
>>
>> Kia ora Markus
>>
>> Shifting this over to the development list.
>> As you are more likely to get an answer there.
>>
>> If no one has answered by the time I get in front of a computer, I'll try
>> :)
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> On 14 June 2018 7:02:30 AM NZST, Markus Becker <beckmarkus at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Koha-Community,
>>>
>>> i did not find any hint oder documentation, where the permissions for
>>> using tools etc. are stored.
>>>
>>> My example:
>>> For testing purpose i want to insert my own perl-script into Koha and
>>> it should appear on the "tools"-page.
>>>
>>> The links on this page are shown to the user or not depending on the
>>> permissions he has:
>>> (tools-home.tt)
>>>
>>>  [% IF ( CAN_user_tools_manage_staged_marc ) %]
>>>  <dt><a
>>> href="/cgi-bin/koha/tools/bibliotheca_convert.pl">Bibliotheca-Datei
>>> hochladen</a></dt>
>>>  <dd>Werkzeug um BIBLIOTHECAplus-Exportdatei für den Import
>>> hochzuladen</dd>
>>>  [% END %]
>>>
>>> I can not find the place, where these rights are deposited. How does
>>> Koha know if a certain right is existing?
>>> I found the file permissions.inc but changes there did not having any
>>> effect.
>>>
>>> Of cource i could use the permission
>>> "CAN_user_tools_manage_staged_marc" for my own script (and then the
>>> link is shown), but IMHO it would be not correct to "steal" the
>>> permission of another script.
>>>
>>> I would be very grateful if someone could give me a hint how to
>>> introduce the permission to start my script to Koha.
>>>
>>> Thank You very much in Advance,
>>> Markus Becker
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>>
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