Copy Alert Matrix: Need New Permissions Specifically for Temporary Alerts

[John Amundson]

With the addition of the Copy Alert/Suppression Matrix in 3.1, bug #1676608, there is a way to add temporary and persistent copy alerts, (aka item alerts), to items.

However, there does not appear to be specific permissions for each type.

The current set of permissions I was able to find include
CREATE_COPY_ALERT
UPDATE_COPY_ALERT
DELETE_COPY_ALERT

These permissions allow for the management of both temporary and persistent alerts. One of the draws of the new alerts was for non-owning libraries to add temporary alert messages. Currently there does not seem to be a way to do this without granting permissions consortium wide for all copy alerts, which we do not want to do.

I am filing this as a bug because the tech specs for the project, http://yeti.esilibrary.com/dev/public/techspecs/alert-matrix.html, state that "there will, at a minimum, be distinct permissions for... the ability to add, update, and ack/delete temporary alerts". This was also discussed in this MassLNC node, http://masslnc.org/node/2764, which provides a couple use cases.