Where this issue arose in our company is in purchasing and warehousing. These staff are the primary ones who maintain our parts database, but we can’t give them permission to make parts inactive, as it requires administrative permissions. It’s prevalent elsewhere in the software as well (pretty much any screen that contains a ‘lock’ feature).

I like that these features requires admin permissions (eg. not just anyone should be allowed to mark a part as inactive), but there should be a way to give users administrative permissions while still being subject to menu/window/field levels of security.

I think you would probably need some kind of intermediate permission for this to work.The highest level permission should have full administrative access that cannot be subjected to security, then the next level would be admins that can be subjected to security, and lastly would be non-admins that can be subjected to security.

by: Ryan B. | over a year ago | Utilities