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[Pamod Amarakoon <pamodm@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you Lars and the team for introducing this useful set of features and
Nick for the excellent video demonstrations.

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 2:22 PM, Lars Helge Øverland <lars@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> in 2.29 we introduced a significant change in the access control solution
> in DHIS 2.
>
> In essence, two new levels within the sharing solution were introduced: *Can
> capture data* and *Can view data*. These levels applies to capturing
> data/events and viewing data/events in analytics, and complements the two
> existing levels so that we now have:
>
> Metadata
> --
> 1. Can edit and view metadata
> 2. Can view metadata
>
> Data/events
> --
> 3. Can capture and view data
> 4. Can view data
>
>
> This means that you can now control who can capture data for data sets,
> programs and program stages through the sharing solution. Previous to 2.29
> this was done through user roles, where data sets and programs were
> associated with user roles.
>
> You can also control who can see data in analytics for programs and
> category options through the new "can view data" sharing level.
>
>
> We have updated the sharing user *documentation* to reflect this:
>
> https://docs.dhis2.org/master/en/user/html/sharing.html
>
>
> We have also have some excellent new *videos* which elaborates on this
> topic - look for "Data level sharing":
>
> https://www.dhis2.org/spotlight
>
>
> The *motivation* behind this change in the access control model is:
>
> - It provides a single place to control access to DHIS 2 objects. The user
> role associations to data sets and programs have been removed and replaced
> by the mentioned sharing levels.
>
> - It opens for more flexibility in access control. Going forward we plan
> to introduce more fine-grained data level sharing and include support for
> entities like data elements and tracked entity attributes.
>
> - It allows better control over who can view data in analytics, in
> particular for program and tracker data.
>
>
> The 2.29 *upgrade* script will create a user group per user role and
> share those groups with the appropriate data sets and programs. You can of
> course opt not to run this part of the script and instead do the upgrade
> manually.
>
> https://github.com/dhis2/dhis2-utils/blob/master/
> resources/sql/upgrade-229.sql
>
>
> best regards,
>
> Lars
>
>
> PS. thanks Nick Dutta for excellent videos.
>
>
> --
> Lars Helge Øverland
> Technical lead, DHIS 2
> University of Oslo
> lars@xxxxxxxxx
> https://www.dhis2.org
>
>
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-- 
Regards,
Pamod Amarakoon
MBBS (SL)
MSc (Biomedical Informatics), EMSc (Health Admin), PGCert (MedEd), CEH
HISP Sri Lanka

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