The visibility selection to control ACL in the uploader should be configurable

[dagraf]

It should be possible for application administrators to decide whether the visibility selection to control ACL should be offered in the uploader or not.

Reason: At our institution (University of Bern) and I guess also in many other institutions the uploaded videos get the visibility from the series they are part of.

[oas777]

Can you explain this a bit more with respect to https://tobira.opencast.org/~manage/upload? The "Access policy" part of that page would disappear once you have selected a series because that series then decides the visibility/access policies?

[LukasKalbertodt]

My suggestion would be to not hide the UI, but make it greyed-out "read only", showing the access policy of the series. And add a note "access is determined by series" (in a more user friendly way).

I think we will tackle this as part of the more general "what's the deal with inheriting ACLs from series?" task. We should really look into this...

[dagraf]

My first thought was to give application administrators the opportunity to hide the Access policy part on the upload page totally. We are doing this in Opencast when people manually upload videos into a series. But the idea of Lukas to make it greyed-out "read only" and add a note which explain this sounds reasonable, too.
I would not expect this to be the default but to make it configurable: Institutions should be able to decide whether they want the access policy part on the upload page in write or read-only mode.

Let's discuss this in an upcoming meeting.

[oas777]

Questions for that discussion:

• Can you see the accessibility rules of the series you select for your upload (so that you don't select a public series by accident)?
• Can you upload an episode without selecting a series?
• Or will that orphan episode automatically become part of the user's series?

[LukasKalbertodt]

Can you see the accessibility rules of the series you select for your upload (so that you don't select a public series by accident)?

That's what I suggested and I think it makes sense.

Can you upload an episode without selecting a series?

That's configurable.

Or will that orphan episode automatically become part of the user's series?

No such feature exists yet.