New Security Roles

Lee Grisham

Does anyone have any idea what the new Security Roles recently rolled out mean? Communications and Marketing seem awfully similar.

Candy Sangster

@Lee Grisham I am just now having time to even look at these roles. What is Extensibility roles?

Bill Connors

@Lee Grisham Lee, Marketing refers to the Marketing menu which includes Email (mass email). Where are you seeing Communications as a role type? I'm not seeing it in my copy. If you mean Communication within Marketing as a task or permission, that refers to the constituent tile called Email history as I understand it. The tile was supposed to record emails sent from Marketing > Email but also other types of communication, at least when it was first created and released. Someone at BB isn't keeping the actual name of the tile in synch with the option for it in Security unless I misunderstand the option.

Bill Connors

@Candy Sangster Extensibility is the fancy comprehensive term for giving the user access to the RE NXT SKY API tool, the ability to read and write to RE data from the “backend” of the database over the web, usually something a programmer would do. It's called Extensibility because an API allows you to extend the capabilities of a program by allowing a programmer to read and write to the data and sometimes even change the program itself, as RE NXT allows.

Lee Grisham

@Bill Connors Here's the different roles that I see:

Bill Connors

@Lee Grisham Sorry for the delay, I've been out of the office. That wasn't in my copy of RE when I replied last week, now I see it and I agree, I share the confusion. I have no idea what this is. I'll see what I can find out. Ugh, why they release this stuff and not tell us is beyond me.