Roles

Roles are used to define the default parameters for each user assigned to that role, such as the default user views and permissions, the activities they are permitted to record, and more. Some of these parameters can be adjusted on a per-user basis; it's not necessary nor recommended to create new roles for small individual changes.

Adding new roles

When creating a role you can select a pre-existing role to use as the template.

PTS is shipped with a number of popular roles pre-configured, such as Pharmacist, Porter, Ward Staff and more. If you need to create a new role access the actions menu by clicking on the actions menu icon at the top right of the page, then from the actions menu click the New Role button.

To speed up the Role creation process you can create the role based upon an existing role. Select the closest Role to the one to be created by selecting it from the list; you can make changes to it next.

Click OK when you're done. The process then continues in the role popup.

Editing existing roles

To edit an existing role, select the role you wish to amend by clicking on its entry in the list to load the role popup (note clicking the tickbox has another dedicated function).

Role popup

The activity permissions tab. Many prefer to access this via the Activities setup page where the process is easier to follow.

Role details tab

• Description
  This is a free format field that is used to describe the Role.

Activities tab

Here it is possible to limit which roles are permitted to perform certain dispensing activities. Activities in red are disabled, activities in green are enabled, and activities in amber are inferred to be enabled. This is because they have not been specifically added to any other role, and are therefore by default considered to be available to any and all roles. Once an activity permission is added to at least one role, it is considered to be unavailable to other roles (n.b. it shows up in red) unless also specifically added to them.

If this process is hard to follow consider making your changes to activity permissions in the Activities setup page, where the flow is reversed and arguably makes more sense.

You can hover over the activity to read a explanation of its current status within the current role.

To add a new activity to the list of permitted activities, click on the Plus button, and then select the activity from the list. This will add the activity in green. Click the Save button to save your changes.

The note permissions tab.

Note permissions tab

Every note added to PTS will be listed here next to a dropdown where you can set the access that this role has to it.

• Hidden
  Users of this role will not see this note anywhere, even when viewing a prescription that contains it. This is useful for hiding potentially sensitive note types.
• View
  The note will be visible when recorded, but the user will not be able to record the note themselves.
• Create
  User will be able to see and record this note themselves, assuming the user has permission to create notes in general i.e. CREATENOTES = Yes. This setting will not override CREATENOTES = No.

Type permissions tab

Every prescription type added to PTS will be listed here next to a dropdown where you can set the access that this role has to it.

• Hidden
  Users of this role will not see prescriptions of this type anywhere, even when viewing a home page view that contains one.
• View
  The prescription type will be visible to the user, but the user will not be able to book in a prescription of this type themselves.
• Create
  User will be able to see and book in prescriptions of this type, assuming the user has permission to book in in general i.e. BOOKIN = Yes. This granular control has proved useful in allowing ward users to book in prescriptions of specific types only, such as an Order for Controlled Drugs. This setting will not override BOOKIN = No.

User views tab

This section allows the default user views for users of this role to be configured.

See the User Views page for more about user views.

Permissions tab

This section allows the default general permissions for users of this role to be configured.

Applying changes to existing users

Applying changes to the role to existing users.

Upon saving changes to a role PTS will ask if you want to apply those changes to all existing users who are assigned that role. Choose Yes or No from the dialog box. This can save a lot of time when you make broad changes to user view configurations, for example.

You can also perform this task at any time via the Actions menu.

Be advised that this process can take some time to complete if there are a large number of affected users. Please be patient and avoid closing down PTS until you see the confirmation message.