It would be nice to be able to automatically associate a System Role with an Organisation or Position i.e. when creating the Org/Position there would be an option to choose one (or more) System Roles. Then various content which is ordinarily visible by anyone can be easily restricted to members of a certain Organisation etc.
How much development would this require? Anyone else see a use for it, or an alternative way to achieve the same end? What are the flaws in the very notion?
We're actually looking at adding something similar to this to audiences - so you can assign a role to all the members of an audience and have the role assignment auto-update as people join/leave the audience.
One issue is that roles are assigned to users but also to contexts - so when assigning a role to an audience you would need to specify a context level (e.g. category) and a context instance (e.g. a particular category).
One of the big issues with this will be scalability/performance, since role assignments can be quite slow it will need to be done with scaling in mind or it won't work for large sites.
Simon
