[LON-CAPA-admin] Co-author role but without the right to publish?

[Gerd Kortemeyer]

Hi,

On Jul 2, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Stefan Bisitz wrote:

> Felicia Berryman wrote:
>> You can create an assistant author instead of co-author.  Assistant
>> author cannot publish and can't browse resources.  This role was
>> created so a professor can have an undergraduate employee code
>> questions.
>
> Thanks, Felicia. I tried "Assistant Co-Author". Do you mean this  
> role? I
> can confirm that users with this role can't browse resources, but
> publishing is possible! Just a "little" bug?

A good point was just raised "out-of-band": some faculty might want  
students to do the cataloging and proper metadata tagging for them,  
so publishing should be an available privilege.

Why do you want them to be unable to publish, i.e., what is the  
concern there?

- Gerd.