Knowledge House Information System project updates

Following the launch of KHIS 2.0 late last year, accounts were created for only the core KHIS users within each of our five member universities.

However, now that the system is stable and users are reporting excellent feedback, the rollout of accounts to other individuals and groups within the universities has begun.

KHIS is underpinned by a bespoke security model which allows access to data to be customised on a per user basis. For each record in the system, four levels of access can be granted:

• None (record is invisible)
• Summary (user can see core data such as project reference and owner)
• Read only (read-only access to the full record)
• Full (write access to the full record)

These levels of access can be granted to a single user, a collection of users, all users with access to a specific project, or globally to all users.

This flexible security system is one of the prime advances over KHIS 1.5, and allows highly customised user groups to be created. Indeed, several such groups have now been set up.

At one university, for example, a group of accounts has been set up for staff from a research centre. Users have full access to projects created by staff from that centre, plus summary access to all other projects running within the university. Projects from the other four universities are completely hidden.

Further accounts and groups will be created over the coming months.