Forum .LRN Q&A: How to add a new role (admin,professor)?plz help

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1: How to add a new role (admin,professor)?plz help
Posted by Dinesh Nithyanadam on 05/16/06 03:52 PM
How to add a new role (admin,professor)?plz help.Is there any option to add the roles thru admin or thru coding level.Any help will be usefull.

thanks in advance

Dinesh

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2: Re: How to add a new role (admin,professor)?plz help (response to 1)
Posted by dharma chandran on 05/16/06 04:00 PM
really i appriciate your thanks...

but i don't know the answer..

i am also working in this area...

congrats...

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3: Re: How to add a new role (admin,professor)?plz help (response to 1)
Posted by Caroline Meeks on 05/16/06 11:04 PM
There are a few options.

You can change the names of the exiting roles through "Edit Group Properties". All the non-student roles have the same permissions so you can just rename them.

If you need new permissions for your role then you need to explain more about what you are trying to do.

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4: Re: Re: How to add a new role (admin,professor)?plz help (response to 3)
Posted by Dinesh Nithyanadam on 05/17/06 07:00 AM
Thanks for the reply.my case is .. : i have more roles to be added in my appln.example when a user is created the option box list out the " USER TPYE " (Profesor,student,staff,external).In that i want to add some more types like (Department head,lecture,etc) and also the access level for each level.

Awating for the reply.

Thanks in advance

Regards
Dinesh

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5: Re: Re: Re: How to add a new role (admin,professor)?plz help (response to 4)
Posted by Harish Krishnan on 06/02/06 03:05 PM
Dinesh the user type is local to dotlrn and dotlrn is a vertical application built on the modules of openacs. You must try to use the approach followed in the dotlrn create scripts in your application. But I would suggest you could use a simpler approach for your application by directly using the groups api for handling roles.