History for CMF_Roles

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**CMF Roles in Education (Learning Communities)**

see also [CMF_Creator]

*I am thinking here of the roles of administrator, instructor, assistant, marker, student, visitor, parent/guardian, etc...*

- I wanted to inherit existing zope users as CMF Members.  It was easy:  create the CMF with *Use existing Acl Users Folder*, then go into *portal manage* and choose **portal_memberships** and select **Configuration** to **map** *zope roles* to *CMF roles*

- New Users must be at least **Members**

- Members of a same **class** as in **course** can be assigned a special **Role** (just create a new one in **security tab** for each new course

- If **Anonymous User** should not be able to participate, adjust the permissions about **portal** in **security tab**

- Workflow set permissions directly on documents (*not via inheritance as in regular zope*)

**Issues**

- The **undo** and **list undoable** permissions affect whether **global actions** show up (in the sidebar or topbar)

- Although **roles** are NOT **groups**, they can be cumulated to have the desired effect (paraphrased Chris Withers)

**Questions**

- Why only active Members show up in **Change Member Roles**?  (Makes it harder to assign courses to students who are not yet active.


**Resources**

- "FAQ CMF Permissions":http://cmf.zope.org/doc/FAQ/permissions/ 

- "Role Blacklist Product":http://www.zope.org/Members/regebro/LRBlacklist allows creation of managers who cannot manager subfolders (for different school sites for example)