Detailed Access Control – Export – an Extension for the Chrome browser
This is a release that comes with two highlights: Very granular access control and an extension, a plug-in, for the Google Chrome browsers.
This has now been made available.
Best – your Coreon Team!
Manage Access in a Very Detailed Way
Throughout 2021 we have spent significant effort to make the access management to repositories more flexible, more fine granular. As you may know, up to now, we had just three user groups: User (= can read everything), Maintainer (= can edit), and Manager (= can configure the repository, can import/export). But in some situations for instance you’d like to hide some properties for an external audience.
In the last months we have reworked the authentication module to manage access in a more granular way and also to create custom user roles. A couple of examples what is now possible:
- Grant access to a given property but deny to another. For example, “hide” a property such as Review note or Status for some users.
- Grant to a language but not to all
- Define a custom user role, such as Partner Network with access to only some properties and only your official languages.
We will soon publish a tutorial post on our user assistance pages what is
exactly possible and what it means.
This is the first major step in making access management way more sophisticated. For these days we have released the core functionality to achieve this, but still without a UI to configure this.
The next step now is to make this self-configurable via the dashboard UI. Until then we will help you to configure the access rules for your repository. Please get in touch with us if you want to revisit the access rules of your repositories.
Improved Export
Having collected quite a bit of feedback we’ve improved the export functionalities. All rather detail changes – to mention the most important ones:
- Export filename: Specify how the export file should be named. With a meaningful filename its subsequent handling is more efficient.
- Include administrative data or not: Some export formats do not require admin values (such as created-by) to be included. This is now an optional setting.
- Include markdown or not: Some export formats do not require inline formatting such as bold or superscript to be included, but should rather be removed. This is now an optional setting.
- Limit amount of concepts to be exported: This is useful when testing exports and transformations – instead of exporting the whole set of concepts, just write a few dozens and then inspect.
- Better interaction when selecting a filter: We’ve improved the usability to apply one or more filters when exporting. It is now very clear whether a filter is applied or not.
- Re-run export: a new command to simply re-run an export with right the previous settings. This starts an export job with exactly its previous settings but – of course – reading the newer repository data.
You may also notice that – while working on these capabilities – we started lifting the dashboard UI a bit. This is just a first round of an ongoing activity to increase the usability and appearance of the administration module.
Extension for Chromium Browsers
An extension for a browser? Isn’t Coreon already running in a browser? Yes and yes. This extension is, may we say, “less” for you – the power users, data maintainers – but rather for your audience, i.e. the “accidental” users in an organisation that benefit from your work, from approved multilingual knowledge.
What does this extension achieve?
Integrated into the menu bar of Chromium based browsers it allows to quickly look up a term in a repository, to get a quick idea about it and – if necessary – to then further navigate upon a mouse-click right to its concept location in the repository with all its rich UI.
Thus, instead of navigating to Coreon, logging in and then typing in the query, the Search field is available directly in the browser. In other words – reaching the repository, running a simple lookup is now way faster.
- See a short demo how it works
- How about authentication?
Via Coreon credentials or API key. We can help you to deploy a custom build for your organisation with an API key “burnt-in” so that your users do not need to remember login parameters. - Where to retrieve?
Download it from the Google Chrome Web Store and install like any other browser extension. - What browsers are supported?
We officially support the Google Chrome browser.
During the beta phase we were also running sanity tests on Microsoft Edge. These were without major hiccups. To our best knowledge, we can therefore claim all fine also for Edge, official support soon. One of our developers uses the Brave browser, and it also runs smoothly in this environment.
