Delegated Administration
- I created a new user account, but this user says that she does not see any of the top row buttons, including the "Add Event" button. How do I get this user Sundial access?
- What is a local account?
- I need someone without a UNI to have access to Sundial. How do I do this?
- What are permissions?
- How do I gain permission to modify an event created by a user that I do not administrate?
- A user who now works in my pision has a Sundial account from a previous position. How can I set-up this user with her or her new permissions and affiliations?
- I created a new user account, but this user says that she does not see any of the top row buttons, including the "Add Event" button. How do I get this user Sundial access?
The user's account may not have been set-up correctly. Under the 'Admin' menu, select 'Users' and find the user account you created. Under the 'details' tab, check for common errors. These include: extra spaces before the email address in the email field, lack of a complete email address in the email field (ensure that it reads uni@columbia.edu), or an email address in the user name field (this should be the user's UNI and nothing else, unless they are a local user). If the user is a Columbia University student, faculty member, or employee, ensure that 'Columbia University' is selected as the namespace.
- What is a local account?
A local account enables a person without a UNI to have access to Sundial. Local accounts should be used sparingly and only with significant discretion.
- I need someone without a UNI to have access to Sundial. How do I do this?
In general, Sundial discourages departments from granting Sundial access to non-Columbia affiliates. If your department decides that this is necessary, please be aware that you take full responsibility for this person's actions within Sundial. When creating a user account for a non-Columbia affiliate, select 'local' from the namespace drop-down menu on the user account set-up page. You will then be asked to create a unique username and password for this account. Please communicate the password to the new user. Additionally, you will need to ensure that the groups that include this non-Columbia user are set to include 'local' users. Under the 'groups' menu, select the relevant group. From the namespace menu, select 'local' rather than 'Columbia University.' Ensure that you do this for each group with which the local user is affiliated.
- What are permissions?
The "Default Permissions" page allows an administrator to grant permission to groups so that they have varying levels of control over a user's event. When a user creates an event in Sundial, he or she is the only person able to view, modify (edit) or own (publish) this event unless he or she has granted permissions to others. Permission are granted on behalf of inpidual users to groups rather than to other inpidual users. Therefore anyone in the group to which you have granted permissions can view, modify, or own your event depending on the level of permission you have granted the group. This means that if you would like all other users in a particular user's group to be able to view, modify or own that user's event, you must give the group these permissions in the 'default permissions' tab.
- How do I can permission to modify an event created by a user that I do not administrate?
A user can give non-affiliated groups permission to modify an event that he or she has created on the inpidual event level. The user can select the yellow 'permissions' tab under 'edit event' to give selected permissions to a particular group.
- A user who now works in my pision has a Sundial account from a previous position. How can I set-up this user with his or her new permissions and affiliations?
You will need to ask Sundial support (sundial-help@columbia.edu) to delete the user's account. You can then recreate the account with the appropriate affiliations and permissions.