Hi I am creating a dashboard where a user can belong to multiple tenants and have a different role per tenant and need help to know if my idea is in the right direction.
Normally a directus user can only have one role. However I already have a table for users in an existing database.
My Idea:
If i establish a one tbl_user to many directus_users relationship. Could this allow my to have a user to belong to multiple tenants with their respective roles?
Hmm - it seems like you should be able to make this work with the existing roles and permissions system. Few
clarifying questions…
Hi thanks for responsing.
Many user can belong to many tenants.
So the dashboard is a ticketing platform. The dashboard will also be the client that makes api calls to a directus api. There are many kinds of tenants eg. promoters and venues. There are cases where a user will be an admin for a promotor but just a viewer for venues in order to look at statistics. So that requires the user to have different roles.
The plan is to use directus to build an api at the same time use directus roles to handle the authorization. There are existing roles however unused and are couple d too closely tenant type eg. bunch of if statements that check tenant type.
Think i solved it
I used a join table tbl_tenantusers that already exists and then create a M2O connection from directus_users to tbl_tenantusers.tenantusers_id. This will allow my exsting users to have more than one directus_user hence multiple roles. These users don’t have to use the directus dashboard so the directus_user doesn’t need email or password as it’s just used for permissions.
Glad you worked out a solution. If you’ve tested this and it works – roll with it.
I thought this was a great question and many others might have similar ones - so here’s a video that covers the way I’d tackle this one.