Hi

Thanks for your response. Yes, we have set up survey tags.

When Sarah was first set up as a user she could only see the 5 surveys (in a simple list) which I had previously ticked in the User Configuration window. And presumably she could edit them (though we did not check this at the time).

The tag folder was not showing, so I set her view of Recorder so that it was, i.e Right click on survey icon > Configure > General tab - Organise Surveys by Tag. Then all the surveys in the database appeared in their survey tag folders. But then she could edit everything.

Ideally, what we want is for data owners like Sarah to be able to view everything, but only edit their own data.

Our plan was that general users (i.e. those with no need to edit) would log onto the system via a generic logon e.g. "CCW All Users" and would only have read only access. They would have to have the survey tags enabled otherwise it is impossible to make sense of the numerous surveys.

So I could turn off the tag option from Sarah's view of Recorder and she could log on as herself for editing, and then log on as CCW All Users if she just wants to view the whole dataset.

However, I can see problems with this.
- it is not very secure - some editors would quickly work out that the only thing stopping them editing was the survey tag option.
- some editors (but not all) would need survey tags enabled anyway because they edit different types of surveys
- they would need the survey tags on anyway when they log in as CCW All User - can this be set independently?
- if I turn Sarah's survey tag option off and she does a query on the 5 surveys, does it just apply to them or to the whole database.

Any ideas that might help, please?
Many thanks,
Kath

Yes, please. I think it is important that this issue is looked into as a priority, as at the moment is quite a serious security loophole in the system.

I will raise it with JNCC directly too.

I'd be grateful if you could keep me informed on progress.

Many thanks

Kathryn