Role Reporter

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Dear QField developper team

Thanks for all your great work!
I have questions about the available roles in QField.
If my understandig ist right, then

  • the role reader is just for viewing. No editing is possible.
  • the role reporter is to map, edit and delete my data. Data of others is just for viewing.
  • the role editor ist to map, edit and delete data of everybody.
  • the role manager has no other rights in the app, but in the backend for configuration.
  • the role admin has no other rights in the app, but all rights for configuration in the backen.

I encountered problems with the very usefull role of reporter. The modified data wasn’t pushed to the cloud (push changes). And when I use synchronize, my local data is lost.

Am I doing something wrong or is this an issue?

Regards Christoph

Imported from GitHub discussion by @geoplanteam on 2022-01-23T15:54:49Z

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Hello, geoplanteam . Thanks for trying QFieldCloud.

I will have a look and share results in the coming weeks.

Imported from GitHub comment by @suricactus on 2022-01-23T16:16:00Z

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In order to provide a clearer and more manageable discussion forum and to have all discussions about QField and related products (i.e. QFieldCloud and QFieldSync) in a single place, we transferred all the discussions from the QFieldCloud to the QField repository.

Imported from GitHub comment by @marioba on 2022-02-01T13:27:55Z

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Dear geoplanteam, sorry for the delayed answer! We are improving the documentation, which will include a better description of the available roles. But we also hugely improved the application. Can you try it with the latest version and give a feedback if the problem still exists?

Imported from GitHub comment by @ZsanettMed on 2022-03-09T19:16:22Z

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Hello suricactus
I’m sorry, I still have the same problem. Pushes from the role reporter are not taken into account. And the synchronization erases all the data I have captured on the mobile/tablet.

But I have an other issue when I thry to synchronize my project in QGIS: Upload from local to cloud (prefere local) works fine. Download from cloud (prefere cloud) doesn’t work. The message is: Aborted “instandhaltung.gpkg” download.

If you don’t have any of this problems, I will try with a new, clean project.

Regards Christoph

Imported from GitHub comment by @geoplanteam on 2022-03-11T19:41:22Z

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Hi geoplanteam , suricactus
have you tested the reporter role? I tried it but all modifications I pushed on the cloud are “classified” as unpermitted. Is there any documentation about the limitations of roles? I think it is very important that users under “manager role” shouldn’t have the possbility to have a local data copy back in their pc (sync back to local). My idea. Thanks

Imported from GitHub comment by @aliasatp on 2022-03-14T08:50:14Z

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Hi aliasatp
I have tested all the roles. But with the reporter role I have problems to write data back to the cloud.
What is expected for every role is an other question. I wrote down my understanding of the roles in the very first message of this post.
Regards Christoph

Imported from GitHub comment by @geoplanteam on 2022-03-16T09:23:37Z

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I will look into your issue next week and the documentation is already under ongoing improvement on roles. I will keep you posted.

Imported from GitHub comment by @suricactus on 2022-03-16T09:32:27Z