[dev] Virtual address book permissions

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael Rubinsky <mike at theupstairsroom.com>:

>> As far as the PERM_EDIT question, why would you give a user more
>> permissions with a vbook, if they didn't have PERM_EDIT on the original
>> source?
>
> What I was thinking of was the case where you had one, very large
> 'global address book' across the organization - which may or may not be
> available in it's full source to everyone on a read only basis.  As the
> admin, I might wish to assign one person per, let's say department to
> maintain the information for the people they are responsible for.  So,
> let's say Bob is a department manager.  He has 100 employees he is
> directly responsible for.  I could allow Bob to maintain the
> information for only his staff so he could, for instance change Mary's
> phone number without the ability to update information for people for
> whom he is not responsible for.

And how would you determine if a user is allowed to add a contact 
(which is a matter of PERMS_EDIT too)? Lookup which virtual address 
book it would end up in? I don't think this would work intuitively.

Jan.

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