SSP v2.1 Customizable Confidentiality Levels

Owned by Jason Elwood
Last updated: Feb 16, 2014Version comment
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Applicable version: 2.1 or later

Description

  • SSP has default Confidentiality Levels (CL) to secure items added to students.  Additional items can be configured and used throughout SSP if the default CLs do not meet requirements.  If additional (or different) levels are required, new Confidentiality Levels can be defined in SSP admin.  The configurable Levels work exactly the same and require assignment to users in order for SSP to properly enforce the restrictions, just as the default Levels do.  There is a limit of 20 custom CLs.  The new levels will be used by name in the application and associated to a generic permission in the application.

Process

Manage Confidentiality Levels: SSP administration allows for the management of Confidentiality Levels (CL).  Default CLs can be made inactive and removed from the list used throughout SSP.  CLs are managed by:

  • Navigate to SSP Admin
  • Choose the Security folder
  • The list of default and custom CLs appears
    • Add to create a new CL
    • Double-click to edit an existing CL
  • After the add or edit, Click Update

 

For any Confidentiality Level to restrict an item in SSP, the permission must be assigned to a user.  Users may only see items in SSP that have a Confidentiality Level (data permiss) assigned to them or items created by the user.  Confidentiality Levels can be assigned through the SSP-Platform Manage Users or through the security integration.

Definitions

Each CL is defined by:

  • Name: the text displayed for the list of CLs throughout the application
  • Acronym: an abbreviation stored with the selected CL
  • Data  Permission: each CL corresponds to a permission assigned to users.  For custom CLs, generic data permissions have been created in SSP-Platform.  The permissions are name DATA_CL_01, DATA_CL_02....DATA_CL_20.  Each custom permission can only be assigned once.