openedx / openedx/openedx-authz
Task - RBAC AuthZ - Course Outline - implement granular permissions
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- Dominant language
- Python
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Description
Implement granular permissions on course outline, including support for read-only views and restricting publish permissions.
Changes needed:
edx-platform: Implement granular permission checks on the xblock endpoint
edx-platform: Implement granular permissions on other endpoints used in Course Overview
frontend-app-authoring: Implement granular permission checking and disabling/enabling of editable fields and buttons.
TODO: Create subtasks for each repo
Contributor guide
First steps
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- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by splitting the work into subtasks for edx-platform and frontend-app-authoring. Inspect the xblock endpoint, the other Course Overview endpoints, and the frontend editable fields and buttons; done means read-only views work and publish permissions are restricted consistently.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- python
- Domain
- authorization, backend-api-design, frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100