The Roles Database Application:
Getting Started II

Working with Persons

Displaying persons

The Person List screen displays the following fields for each person:

Person Type	Code letter for Person Type (E for Employee, S for Student, O for Other, X for gone from MIT)
First Name	Person's first name
Last Name	Person's last name
Kerberos Name	Person's Kerberos principal within the athena.mit.edu realm. (Note that the Roles Database only stores records for MIT people who have a Kerberos name in the athena.mit.edu realm.)

To display more fields, select a Person and click the Detail button, or double-click on a Person.
Result: The "Person Detail" screen appears with the following additional fields:

MIT ID	The person's 9-digit MIT ID number.
Email Addr	The person's email address as recorded in either Personnel, Registrar or Moira (Athena) records.
Org Unit	The person's department name, if known.
Primary Person Type	The spelled-out person type, e.g., EMPLOYEE, STUDENT, OTHER

As in the "Authorization List" and "Function List" screens, you can select more than one line at a time using Ctl-click (Windows) or Command-click (Macintosh).

As of this writing, the following Selection Sets are available for the Person List screen:

People by Kerberos name

When you specify a Kerberos name (or the first part of one) and optionally a person type (E, S, or O), a list of people with Kerberos names matching these criteria, sorted by Kerberos name appears.

People by E-mail address

Specify an email address (or the first part of one) and optionally a person type (E, S, or O) to see a list of people -- sorted by Kerberos name-- whose email address match these criteria.

People by MIT ID

Specify an MIT ID number to display athe person (if any) matching this MIT ID number.

People by last name

Specify a last name (or the first part of one) and optionally a person type (E, S, or O) to see a list of people --sorted by last name--matching these criteria.

People who have authorizations

Lists people who have one or more authorizations in the Roles Database. As an option, you canselect only people who have authorizations within a given function category, or only people whose last names starts with a specified letter or string of letters.

People who have modified authorizations

Lists people who have created or modified at least one authorizations. You can also limit the display to people whose last names begin with a specified letter or string of letters.

People who have modified functions

Lists people who have created or modified at least one function. Optionally, you can limit the display to people whose last names begin with a specified letter or string of letters.