More Granular Permissions for Creating Report Templates and Viewing Output

[Jessica Woolford]

This was discussed at the Reports Interest Group meeting at the 2021 conference.

Currently, the permissions that allow the creations of templates and viewing of report output are very broad. It would be desirable to limit the types of reports staff could create and view based on their role in the library. Not all staff need or should have access to patron data, for example.

[Lindsay Stratton (lstratton)]

To add to this - it would be desirable to be able to differentiate between cloning templates and creating new templates.

Case in point: we allow staff users to create their own templates. Yesterday, reports run from an ill-formed staff template jammed up the entire reporter, preventing all other users' reports from running until the stuck reports were cleared.

[Andrea Neiman (aneiman)]

Reports Security, bug 2043132, attempts to address some of this.

[Elizabeth Davis (elidavis)]

To add to this-it would be helpful if staff can be limited to running reports only on working org unit.