In a non-profit (and probably other environments) people tend to stick around but take on different roles from time to time. For example, Joe has been around forever; this term he's the treasurer and needs access to the treasurer email and shared drive; last term he was chair of the marketing group and needed their drive and calendar and managing their email group; next quarter he'll be in education. Each of these roles entails different responsibilities. Moreover, some roles, like treasurer, require continuity. So the treasurer emails are filed away where next treasurer can get them.
Has anyone figured out the best way to manage this situation?
I'd like not to have people get 4 logins for different roles. I'd like them to log in as themselves and then see a choice of "persona" they can take on. Each persona defines their email and privileges. Well, that's probably not happening. Delegation only covers email. I tried using the role as group, but thought preserving email was awkward.
Does someone have a least-difficult solution??
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Seems to me that you could set up role accounts (treasurer@example.org and so on) and do the following:
Email: Delegate access to the person who has that role
Calendar: Share the calendar with full permissions to the person who has that role
Drive: Have a shared drive for each role, with permissions maintained appropriately (the person in that role might have edit permissions, others viewer-only for example)
It would require a bit of work whenever there was a transition, but I don’t think it’d be too difficult….
Just a thought….
Cheers,
Ian