I’m working on setting up a book for a new class this quarter in which students will be authoring individual chapters. I’m noticing that when a student has an “Author” role and I make that student the Owner of a chapter, they are not able to see their Revisions history in their own chapter. Is this true and if so is there a reason for this? Would love to have chapter Authors be able to see and Restore their past Revisions. Thanks!
Lauren
Hi Lauren, thanks for pointing this out! I see the same when I log in as an “Author” user and I believe this is unintentional. I’ve filed a GitHub issue and will look into this with the tech team at an upcoming bug troubleshooting meeting. I’m hoping we’ll be able to address this in the near future.
Thank you! We were hoping to have all students in the book as Authors b/c we want to prevent them from any accidental editing of other student chapters. And I know students get nervous about not being able to access a revision history, so it would be excellent if this could be addressed. I’ll be working with them to start logging in to Pressbooks on 4/17. If the fix will be further down the road, I’ll set them as Editors on the 17th and go from there. Thanks again!
Wanted to note that I just tried to see what it would look like if I changed a student role to “Collaborator”. With this, I’m able to see Revision history (though am not able to Restore previous versions). I’m also not able to Add Media as a Collaborator.
Thanks for this additional info. Not being able to add media from the chapter editor as a “Collaborator” does seem arbitrary to me, since Authors have that ability. I’ll bring that up with the devs too. Also, I’d hope that both Authors and Collaborators would be able to restore their own Revisions, not just view them, but I see you’re right that Collaborators can only view Revisions currently.
I’m not sure what the timeline will be for revising these permissions since this will need to be sized in backlog refinement and added to an upcoming tech sprint; it may be that assigning the students as Editors on the 17th is the way to go, but we’ll let you know before that date what the current status is and whether we have this fixed in a new release by then.
Hi @olray, sorry, I think setting the students as Editors tomorrow would be the best approach. I don’t think we’ll have these inadvertent limits on Author and Collaborator permissions lifted before then because the devs are quite busy with other tasks at the moment, but we’ve discussed the issues in recent bug scrub meetings and will aim to resolve them soon.