Thank you everyone for taking a look and I've included most corrections. Some suggestions I've left out.
jdlessley wrote:I notice that you have limited who has editor rights under the Calendar application and publisher rights under Newsletter. This must be the way your unit has set things up. But this matrix could give the impression that those listed are granted those rights by default since you have provided a way to indicate that administrators can add anyone as an administrator or editor for the Calendar and administrator or publisher for the Newsletter on the line position for "Anyone (added by an Administrator)".
As stated in my original post, I did all this based on the online help (not by virtue of experience), so for Calendar it says:
If you used the Initial Setup to create calendars for your ward, the leadership roles appropriate to each calendar were already added.
This is very vague, and so I made some assumptions, which again in my original post I indicated if they are wrong please tell me.
For the Newsletter it specifically lists at:
https://ue.ldschurch.org/ldsapphelp/new ... _roles.htm
those who are Publishers and I've just copied that to my matrix. It is also part of the reason that I didn't add non-stake/bishopric counselors as Editors to the Calendar - if they are not specifically listed then they were left out.
jdlessley wrote:In reviewing your matrix I have noted a help documentation problem for the Calendar and Newsletter roles. Your matrix implies that any calendar administrator can add other calendar administrators. Only default administrators, those with administrator rights by virtue of holding a certain calling, can add or remove other administrators who are not default administrators. The same is true for the Newsletter application. I will post this missing help documentation in another thread as well as provide feedback through the appropriate applications' feedback links.
Whilst I appreciate that this is true, my matrix is currently NOT intended to be the answer to every question, but just give the bare bones basics. It is why I specifically provided the links to the online help so a more thorough understanding could be sort.
As a partial explanation of why I'm putting this together, but not wishing to bore you with the details, I'm the District High Counselor responsible for Technology (we have no Assistant Clerk - Tech Specialist) which means I have NO administrative experience with this stuff. As far as I can tell, the District and it's 8 Branches don't use any of these tools. The reason they don't use them is because none of them work. The reason they think none of them work is because the people in callings that could edit and update the details aren't actually aware that they can.
So I simply what to be able to tell any individual, in a basic vanilla default Branch that hasn't touched this stuff, what they basically can do, i.e. I want to be able to tell a RSP that they can publish newsletters, add/edit classes and add/edit calendars without the need for BPs approval or anyone else's input - they can do it from the comfort of their own home. Their counselors on the other hand can only add/edit classes. Should the RSP subsequently learn that they can add their counselors as Calendar editors, that's great, but I need to get past the first step.
Or more specifically, if there is at least one individual in a Branch that is computer literate, I've now discovered that I should be suggesting to BPs that they call them (along with any other callings they already have) to be the Website Administrator (and ensure it is reflected in MLS) so at least one person in the Branch might attempt to use the tools.
So thanks again everyone, you have definitely helped me!
