-- -- Privacy control -- by aegrumet@alum.mit.edu on 2004-02-10 -- -- -- dotLRN supports a method of protecting private information about -- individuals. This code is intended to help comply with privacy laws such -- as the US -- Family Educational Right to Privacy Act a.k.a. the -- "Buckley Amendment" -- -- http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/privacy/ssn/ferpa.buckley.html -- -- Here we set up the structures for assigning a site-wide flag to -- each user that indicates whether or not they are "guest" users. In -- the context of dotlrn, guest users do not by default have access to -- private information such as the names of students taking a -- particular class. -- declare v_guest_segment_id integer; v_non_guest_segment_id integer; v_object_id integer; begin -- -- Guests -- acs_rel_type.create_type( rel_type => 'dotlrn_guest_rel', pretty_name => '.LRN Guest', pretty_plural => '.LRN Guests', supertype => 'membership_rel', table_name => null, id_column => null, package_name => 'dotlrn_guest_rel', object_type_one => 'group', role_one => null, min_n_rels_one => 0, max_n_rels_one => null, object_type_two => 'user', role_two => null, min_n_rels_two => 0, max_n_rels_two => 1 ); v_guest_segment_id := rel_segment.new( segment_name => 'Registered .LRN Guests', group_id => acs.magic_object_id('registered_users'), rel_type => 'dotlrn_guest_rel' ); -- -- Non Guests -- acs_rel_type.create_type( rel_type => 'dotlrn_non_guest_rel', pretty_name => '.LRN Non-Guest', pretty_plural => '.LRN Non-Guests', supertype => 'membership_rel', table_name => null, id_column => null, package_name => 'dotlrn_non_guest_rel', object_type_one => 'group', role_one => null, min_n_rels_one => 0, max_n_rels_one => null, object_type_two => 'user', role_two => null, min_n_rels_two => 0, max_n_rels_two => 1 ); v_non_guest_segment_id := rel_segment.new( segment_name => 'Registered .LRN Non-Guests', group_id => acs.magic_object_id('registered_users'), rel_type => 'dotlrn_non_guest_rel' ); end; / show errors create or replace view dotlrn_guest_status as select r.object_id_two as user_id, case when r.rel_type = 'dotlrn_guest_rel' then 't' else 'f' end as guest_p from acs_rels r, membership_rels m where m.rel_id = r.rel_id and (r.rel_type = 'dotlrn_guest_rel' or r.rel_type = 'dotlrn_non_guest_rel') and r.object_id_one = acs.magic_object_id('registered_users');