member add with role and through csv file #127
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| const role = await Role.findOne({ name: MainWebsiteRole[teamRole] }); |
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MainWebsiteRole and the Role in database are two different concepts.
MainWebsiteRole is basically the role visible to the general public on our main website
While Role is an internal thing which may vary dynamically.
This is required as suppose a person with designation (main website role) Developer can have different roles in the society, some may have the role of superuser, while other person may have some other role (say foo).
This helps to create different views, and permission levels according to the structure of society while putting people in the same team group.
Another example,
I'm one of the Coordinator of the society (main website role) but I've the role of Superuser, as superuser have the access to all the routes and endpoints required for technical maintenance.
Yet, another person may have the same designation (main website role) of Coordinator, yet have some lower level of permission, and hence a different role with less permission, say the role named Illustrator.
What can you do here?
Directly assume the parameter received is ObjectId of required role, and add that user accordingly.
In the frontend, you fetch all the available roles in the "Add User(s)" page, and give option to user in a dropdown menu to select users role.
For multiple users addition (via CSV), you can follow one of two approaches (or can come up with some other of your own as well)
- Frontend should read CSV and replace role name given with their
ObjectIdbefore sending the API request. - Allow Backend to accept role with role name (string) and map strings back to
role_id(ObjectId).
Preference: Follow the 1st approach, as it can help to detect error in CSV early.
Additional note for frontend part: Make sure user can download a "sample CSV" (with headers and maybe a dummy user entry), so making the CSV file is intuitive.
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The PR is not ready yet, consider getting it done. Let me know if there is some help required regarding this that I can offer. @dtutimes/2025-team |
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The csv file should be in the format: