Permissions Working Group

The Permissions Working Group was formed in June 2023 to collaborate on the testing, defining, and documenting of Evergreen permissions. Everyone is welcome to participate, and all skill sets and staff roles are encouraged! The end goal is to gain a comprehensive understanding of how permissions work and to discuss best practices for determining user permission groups.

The group meets on the fourth Tuesday of each month at 3 p.m. EST. See Permissions Working Group Meetings.

Permissions Working Group: permissions-working-group@evergreen-ils.org

• Test permissions
  • Identify functions
  • Identify behaviors
  • Identify alerts/toasts
  • Identify bugs
  • Identify deprecated permissions
  • Community testing notes:
    • Susan/PINES: EG Permission Testing
    • NC Cardinal: Permissions: Which groups have which privileges
    • Lindsay Stratton's massively disorganized not entirely up-to-date tests: Evergreen 3.8 permissions 20221130

• Define permissions
  • Standardize vocabulary and format of permission descriptions
  • Update permission descriptions LP Bug 1842957

• Contribute to permissions documentation
  • How do permissions actually work?
  • What does the EVERYTHING permission do?
    • 2022 Lightning Talk by Andrea Buntz Neiman (Slides)
  • Add permissions to corresponding sections in Evergreen Documentation
  • Review and update Evergreen Permissions Documentation: Permissions Documentation Reorg Suggestions
    • User and Group Permissions
    • Describing Your People
    • Appendix A. Permissions List

• Permission bug list
• New (unconfirmed) bugs

• Evergreen Stock Permissions
• Evergreen git (change dropdown to 'grep' to search a permission)
• Fieldmapper
• Functions in permissions
• Permissions schema
• Where Permissions Live by Llewellyn Marshall (NC Cardinal), 2023

• Mother May I? Permissions in Evergreen by Shae Tetteron (Equinox), 2012
• Rethinking Patron and Staff Permission Groups in NC Cardinal by Benjamin Murphy and April Durrence (NC Cardinal), 2020
• Open Sesame: Creating Stricter Evergreen Login Requirements for Staff and Patrons by Amy Terlaga, Jessica Woolford, and Carol Yarrison (Bibliomation), 2020
• Train up Catalogers in the Way They Should Go — Rethinking Permissions, Education, and Certification by Jonathan Moore (Wyomissing Public Library), 2021
• Just Dropped In to See What Conditions My Permissions Are In by Susan Morrison (PINES), 2023
• A Beginner's Guide to Evergreen Permissions by Susan Morrison (PINES), 2024