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Authorization Schema


Please use the Authorization Schema Template for specifying new authorization combinations for a given application. Please add and remove nodes as necessary. The nodes privilege, role, and action are required; spanOfControl is optional. If you use spanOfControl nodes, you are currently limited to two nested spanOfControl nodes (that is, you are limited to one child spanOfControl, although you may have unlimited sibling spanOfControl nodes).

The code attributes are the keys that your application will use to determine whether someone has the appropriate authorization. The codeDescription and codeAbbrDesc attributes are descriptive labels that will be displayed within the ASTRA web interface. When screen real estate allows for it, codeDescription will be used; when screen real estate is cramped, codeAbbrDesc may be used.

privilege node

field limits:
code - 20 chars
codeAbbrDesc - 20 chars
codeDescription - 50 chars

role node

field limits:
code - 30 chars
codeAbbrDesc - 20 chars
codeDescription - 50 chars

action node

field limits:
code - 20 chars
codeAbbrDesc - 20 chars
codeDescription - 50 chars

spanOfControl node

field limits:
type - 20 chars
inputControl - 10 chars

The inputControl attribute defines the HTML input control used to specify the data element within ASTRA. Current valid values are: LISTBOX, TEXTBOX.

isRequired - true/false

whether or not someone has to enter a value

isMultiValue - true/false

whether they can enter multiple values

The set of nested spanOfControl nodes are included as an example only.