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Sunday, March 13, 2011

XStudio 1.5: User-groups, projects and access-rights

XStudio already has a great set of options to authorize users to execute certain actions or not depending on their profile. This is what we call "Actions rights".

With XStudio 1.5, a new feature will allow restricting users to view only a subset of the objects in the Data-Model. For instance, you will want some people to work on a specific project and you want them to be isolated from the rest (you don't want them to see what the others are working on).

To do so, you will be able to create groups of users. Each user group will be granted to access certain folders in ANY XStudio tree. This is what we call "Access rights". If a user is member of several groups, all the rights will be cumulated and given to the user.

Here are a few screenshots:

Members of a user group


Selection of Access Rights for a user group


User group members


4 comments:

  1. Hi Kobi,

    > I am wondering if the source requirement
    >document shall need any specific format?
    >In theory, the leaf nodes might contain links,
    >drawings and tables in additions to regular
    >text.
    >Will the tables be converted to Wiki style
    >tables, and drawings imported to the XStudio
    >DB?

    In the current version, only the text is imported. The initial request was just to read the "summary" of the Word document and to create the tree in XStudio. Only the title of the chapters were supposed to be imported (no content in this case).

    In the "Flat" mode, the header level is used to dynamically add a "01, 02, ... 99" prefix to the requirement/specification name and all are imported in a unique folder. Hence they are sorted accordingly to the Word document.

    In the "Deep" mode, the requirement/specification names are not prefixed but a tree representing the document structure is created in XStudio. Text content is also added to the requirements/specifications as much as possible (but this is probably not really reliable yet).

    In the future, we could add import for tests, results etc.

    > Another issue might be that large quantities
    > of redundant items might be imported,
    > deleting these one by one, or moving required
    > ones one by one, might be a bit tedious - need
    > to consider multi-selection delete.

    Multi-selection delete is anyway something we'll need to consider at one point. 100% agree.

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  2. OK - 90% is better than nothing :-)

    BTW - I think this does not belong under this post, did you intend to place under another?

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  3. Yes, it was supposed to go under http://xqual.blogspot.com/2011/03/microsoft-word-document-parser.html

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  4. can someone guide me hat we are using XStudio 1.5 UNREGISTERED VERSION, we are not able to import files both in xml and csv format with & without procedures..How to do it and what is the alternative if something isn't working out without getting a registered version.

    Regards,
    PK

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