Adapt Learning Community: Tenants

Hi All

I have a query about tenants and it's current functionality in the Adapt Authoring Tool.

I work in an institute in which there are different faculties’ e.g Health, engineering etc., but rather than setup separate servers I want to use the tenant feature to assign certain users to certain groups (tenants) where they can see each other’s courses.

So if a user is in Engineering, I don’t want them to see a course for Health.

I have tried to create a new tenant (Via mongodb compass), and assigned several users to said tenant, but it is almost like the functionality of the feature is not ‘activated’, or whether my interpretation of this feature is mistaken.

Would someone be able to clarify the tenant feature, what it does, does it currently work etc?

Cheers

Hi Michael,

the tenant feature is not currently part of the official open source release yet. There is a branch which support tenant management, but it is not 100% feature complete, and by its nature requires additional scrutiny with regard to security. That said, it can be made to work in the right circumstances with a little massaging.

It is on the road map to add to the os tool in a few releases time.

https://www.adaptlearning.org/index.php/authoring-tool-roadmap/

Regards,

Paul

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Hi sorry to bring up this old post, but can anyone confirm the current status of tenants?

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I would also be interested in a status :-)

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Hi Ross,

Due to general lack of interest for a full tenancy management feature (and the amount of work involved), it's been agreed to not continue development on this feature.

What we found that most users are actually just looking to hide certain content (courses/assets/plugins etc.) from groups of users. To this end, we're going to be adding a 'user groups' feature to the v1.0.0 authoring tool which will allow admins to create groups of users, and assign content visibility to those groups. Once the v1.0.0 stable release is publicly available, this will be one of the first new additions.

This differs slightly from true multitenancy, which is more concerned with a physical separation of data (separate databases, separated folder structure), usually for data privacy reasons. Users looking for this kind of approach are better off running multiple instances of the authoring tool for true separation (very little extra overhead, and much more simplicity).

Hopefully this clears things up!

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Hi Tom,

Thanks for the update; appreciated. This makes sense, and from what you've described, I think the User Groups feature would likely meet our needs!

The essential requirement for us would be to ensure clients who have requested access (say to make their updates to a course) can do so without seeing any of the other assets in the system. They could log in, see only their courses, make edits and publish. So to that end, I think what you are saying sounds good!

Thanks again for the update,

Ross

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Thank you very much for the feedback!

The Solution with the User Groups makes sense, and will work for us also fine!

best
Martin

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