Comments on: Profuse Perpetual Pointless Pernicious Permission Problems

By: Purging Pointless Permission Records Provides Performance Payoff | Made2Mentor

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 13:06:11 +0000

[...] Pointless Permission Records Provides Performance Payoff This article is obviously a follow up to Permission Problems post I published previously. The other day I was using the User Permissions Report (RPUSER), I [...]

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:31:00 +0000

It is a pain and I only have 12 users. After I found a permission list that worked for a specific department, I created a uers name like AP or Purchasing, etc. and then copied the permissions to that generic name. Then when I have a new person for that department, I copy the permissions to the new user.

By: JeffV

JeffV — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 21:12:13 +0000

Persuasive!

By: David

David — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:19:00 +0000

Andrew, you read my mind. I had actually wrote that in my notes, and then neglected to include it in the blog post. Mark, I would also like you to explain the last half of your comment as well.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:58:28 +0000

Perplexed. I didn’t understand the last half of your comment Mark.

By: Mark Nosal

Mark Nosal — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:40:22 +0000

As Andrew mentioned the temporary permission changes bite and as you’ve noted the maintenance on the sister screens in addition to the parent screens is just adding insult to injury. The lack of AD interface might be easier to tolerate if a date stamp permissions queue were created in addition to making a dynamic dependency prompt on parent screens.

By: Kim

Kim — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:17:02 +0000

Perfect.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:49:16 +0000

Oh, and you sound “Pissed”.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:48:42 +0000

You forgot the worst problem of all. If Sally from Sales has to be the back up for Peter in Purchasing, you cant add his rights to hers. She can either have hers or his, but not both. You have to figure out the differences and add them one at a time.

By: Judy Graham

Judy Graham — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:26:55 +0000

No arguments from me, I agree that the permissions within M2M are tedious, at best. And while they may work, it seems that it is time to consider updating the schema to work with at least, Active Directory. That would allow a little better control and ease of management.

Good blog, David – you have presented the correct information very well.