Have displays automatically inherit folder permissions
As a PI Vision admin, I would like displays to automatically inherit the permissions of their parent folder so that permissions are set automatically when users save displays to the appropriate folder.
Currently permissions for folders and displays are not tied together but they can be propagated manually using the 'Propagate permissions' checkbox in the Folder Settings dialog.
AdminRyan McErlean
(Product Manager, OSIsoft)
shared this idea
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mcnitz
commented
The fact that there isn't at least an option for displays to inherit permissions from the folder is highly problematic. Having a display saved by default with different permissions than the folder it is in is completely different behavior than a file type structure PI Vision emulates and as such is extremely unintuitive to users. I have tried to spread this information to users at the site, but you are never going to have all people remember it 100% of the time.
So as the administrator I end up going through our folders on some periodic basis to check if there are some displays that weren't shared correctly and doing it myself rather than having it happen automatically.
There is another level to this where it would be nice to have an option to set a folder to not just initially set permissions for the display to match the folder but LOCK them to do so. Most of the official folders we have set up we don't want people in any cases having displays just for personal use saved in those folders anyway, so if we could just ensure that never gets changed it would be extremely helpful. Again, this doesn't have to be something you require for every folder, just an option we could enable to a folder level, or at least an option on the server so we could switch all our folders to it if desired.
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Webcanuck
commented
Only a PI Vision administrator can use the "Propagate permissions" checkbox on the top level folder to update the permissions on all the displays in that folder. Currently a user who has R/W access to the folder cannot even see who the top level folder is shared to. I would like to see this more like the windows files system security. If a display is "Save As" from the home folder to a container folder (copy created) then the display should initially inherit the share settings from the container folder. If a display is moved from the home folder to a container folder then the permissions should stay as they have originally been set.