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Status Not under consideration
Categories Administration
Created by Guest
Created on Jul 30, 2021

DNG : API to manage components permissions

We have defined a DNG data model to manage our needs and requirements.

Needs : workflow with 4 statuses
Requirements : workflow with 6 statuses

We have also defined 4 roles: Auhor, Reviewer, Configuration Manager and RQA Manager

We use components a lot to port our spec sets and are therefore faced with permissions management which is completely manual under DNG. With this data model, the creation of a component involves :

- Needs : Custom Attr x Workflow x Roles = 127 permissions to set
- Requirements : Custom Attr x Workflow x Roles = 97 permissions to position

It is obvious that the manual management of permissions is no longer possible and above all a source of error. The need for an API to manage and audit permissions becomes urgent !

Idea priority Urgent