emory-libraries/librarysearch-enhance

Enable "administrator" features for Library Search

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Enable user management roles so that administrators can perform functions in the application such as enabling a banner message on the homepage, or enabling experimental features for testing.

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When we have maintenance or service disruption, a product manager cannot add alert messages to the homepage without software engineering assistance.

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  • Enable an administrator role
  • Add selected staff to this role
  • Provide a user interface allowing editing of the alert banner on the homepage
  • Provide a user interface allowing certain product features to be toggled on or off

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  • Product managers can provide system updates more quickly in a self service capacity
  • Product users can get alerted more quickly when maintenance or a related service outage occurs

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