Hi Sandra,

Sorry missed this one.

The Categories that you mention are very broad groupings that currently only dictate two things.

Administrtaor - Access to Administration menu and editing products.

Clinician - User is selectable as a clinician in history, invoicing etc.

The permissions on these categories are hard coded into the application so cannot be modified at the site level.

The way to modify individual users ability to do certain tasks is through roles and authorities.  These allow you to define which things specific users can create, edit and delete. Authorities allow you to define the specific bits of information you can manage and roles group these into areas that you can assign to users.  A user can then be assigned to multiple roles i.e receptionist, stock manager etc

Now it was always the intention to build up a set of authorities and roles that could be easily loaded into OpenVPMs and then used/modified by the practice to suit their purposes.  This hasn't happened yet mainly due to finding the time and/or resources to develop and test these.  Currently the only role available is Administration which allows everyone to do anything.  The only thing that restricts this is the Categories defined above.

I think we may need to create a development project to get this done.  It doesn't require any actual development work but just putting together a data file of authorities and roles and testing these. I would be happy to develop the initial data file based on input from you guys about the types of roles and restrictions you want.  I would ask the community for some help to test these to make sure they dont stop some important functions.  This could be done in your training/demo systems so it would have minimal impact on your practice.

Thoughts ?

Cheers

Tony