{"id":77,"date":"2016-02-19T10:15:17","date_gmt":"2016-02-19T10:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/?p=77"},"modified":"2017-11-22T14:17:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T14:17:13","slug":"user-groups-for-admin-privileges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/2016\/02\/19\/user-groups-for-admin-privileges\/","title":{"rendered":"User Groups for admin privileges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our first <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/2016\/02\/19\/principles-tips-and-good-practice-for-grouper-administrators-at-newcastle-university\/\">principle of Grouper good practice<\/a> is:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Use a &#8216;User Group&#8217; to determine who has admin privileges <\/strong>on all of your groups and folders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Whilst setting up another group for this purpose might seem like an additional overhead of time and effort before you really get started with Grouper, I assure you it&#8217;s worth it. There are a few reasons and considerations behind this.<\/p>\n<p>Now, if there are several of you working together with Grouper and all want to have admin privileges on each other&#8217;s groups then this is just common sense; it&#8217;s much easier to grant privileges on your groups to a single group than to several of your colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>But you might be thinking, &#8220;Hey, it&#8217;s just me here. I don&#8217;t need to share admin privileges with anyone else.&#8221; Well, that&#8217;s OK, I hear you, but, please still create a user group for this purpose (with you as the only member). I appreciate it&#8217;s a small hassle, but hear me out.<\/p>\n<p>Today, it&#8217;s just you working on it. But what if that changes? In six month&#8217;s time, you might be lucky enough to get a new colleague to work with you. Do you want to have to go through all the groups you&#8217;ve created and grant them admin privileges? Or would you rather add them as a member of one single group that you bothered to spend a couple of minutes setting up to have admin privileges on all of your groups?<\/p>\n<p>Or, another scenario, what if you move on? Now your successor doesn&#8217;t have privileges on any of the groups they need to look after. If only we had a single admin group we could add them to! Of course, if you&#8217;re moving on, you might not be too worried about that but I&#8217;d like to think we&#8217;re all conscientious enough to care.<\/p>\n<p>My final thought on this is a little more contentious. I&#8217;d say you should set up and use a &#8216;User Group&#8217; for controlling admin privileges even if there&#8217;s already a &#8216;Corporate Data&#8217; group containing the right people. I must admit this isn&#8217;t something I&#8217;ve always done myself but as my thinking has evolved and developed, it&#8217;s what I&#8217;m always going to do in the future.<\/p>\n<p>You can then simply use the &#8216;Corporate Data&#8217; group to populate the members of your admin group. The reason for this is that, whlist the &#8216;Corporate Data&#8217; group might be right today, we&#8217;ve seen how things can change with reorganisations and evolving responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>Using a &#8216;User Group&#8217; for admin privileges, from the start, will future-proof your part of Grouper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our first principle of Grouper good practice is: Use a &#8216;User Group&#8217; to determine who has admin privileges on all of your groups and folders. Whilst setting up another group for this purpose might seem like an additional overhead of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/2016\/02\/19\/user-groups-for-admin-privileges\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1062,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,4],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-group-management","tag-admin","tag-principles","tag-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1062"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":273,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions\/273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/integration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}