Adding an additional administrator to OMP

[rootl]

I would like to add a second administrator to OMP.

I found information about doing this for OJS and OCS here: viewtopic.php?f=8&t=2899&p=10289&hilit=site+admin#p10289

But I know the table structure for OMP is different. Looking at the database and schema, it appears that I would need to add a row to the "user_groups table" with these fields: user_group_id, context_id, role_id, path(admin), is_default.

Please let me know what is needed to do this. Thanks.

[JasonNugent]

Hi rootl,

Actually, what you'd need to do is add an entry to user_user_groups. That's the table that maps user groups to users. There are only two columns -- the user_group_id, which will be '1' for the admin group, and the user_id of the user.

Regards,
Jason

[rootl]

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction. This works great!

[mwood]

I'd like to suggest adding some UI to encapsulate this. It seems to me not at all abnormal for an organization to want multiple admin.s.

[rootl]

I'd like to suggest adding some UI to encapsulate this. It seems to me not at all abnormal for an organization to want multiple admin.s.

I agree completely. Most content management systems, bulletin boards, and LMS have this functionality built into the back end GUI.

[asmecher]

Hi all,

I've filed this request at http://pkp.sfu.ca/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8202 (against OJS, but it will also be ported to OMP when implemented). We've never viewed the Administrator role as a "regular use" role -- typically it's only used when doing something major, like installing the system or creating/removing a press -- which is why we haven't supported the creation of additional administrators before.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team