Development Blog: Permissions

Read the thoughts and ideas of the developers and contibuters to Arctic Reservations, an online reservation management tool.

Permissions

User permissions have now been added to Arctic Reservations, a much requested feature. All existing users will retain full access. But now there are three (well, kind of four) different levels of permissions that can be used:

• Read Only - Users with this permission cannot change any information in the system, only view customers and existing reservations.
• User - A typical user has full control over reservations and customer details, but cannot change settings in the administration menu (including payment plans, inquiry letters, etc).
• Super User - This user has access to the full set of menus, and can change administrative functions. The one thing this user cannot do is change other users permissions and a few other key little controls.
• Administrator - The administrator is the very first user who is setup on Arctic Reservations and can control all settings, even other users' permissions.

Due to the size of this update, the ability to change user permission levels may take anywhere from 1-2 hours to one day to appear on your account.

Some clients have asked about creating read only accounts specific to one trip. This is not really feasible due to the amount of flexibility that exists when creating and managing trips/rivers. For this feature to be implemented, you would have to manually add users to all new trips. At this point I am going to discourage having such a feature, but if demand persists, I will add it eventually.

Labels: features

December 29, 2005 9:41AM • permalink

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