Workgroup settings: Allow write access for owners only

[aputtu]

Objective:
As owner of a Workgroup, I would like to be able to give:

• myself (and other co-owners) write access only
• members of the Workgroup read access only
  This will allow me to set up a Workgroup for courses, and disseminate my research without allowing it to be altered through the Workgroup.

Expected behavior and issue:
When configuring the settings for a Workgroup (in /adminvgrid.py), I expected to be able to set "Shared files write access" to "owners", but it is greyed out.

Current workaround option:
In order to achieve the objectives, it is currently possible to set "Shared file write access" to none for the Workgroup, and provide read-only sharelink course participants and peers. This approach is described in page 118 and forward in ERDA's User Guide.
If editing is needed, set write access to members temporarily while editing, and switch it back to none afterwards.

Downsides to workaround
Downsides to this approach includes not being able to use the Workgroup functionalities, such as restricting access to the specific members. Having to change settings back and forth often, when say lots of editing is needed during a course, provides an unwanted possibility for other to edit. Also, since sharelinks are one-shot copies without automatic updates, when larger data sets gets shared often, it creates multiple copies and in effect, waste disk space.

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Internal references:
This tickets refers to internal tickets only accessible for UCPHHPC employees:
RT-30772
TL-109

[jonasbardino]

Thanks a lot for registering the feature request here in great detail and describing the current workarounds @aputtu.

It requires some development effort to support the feature and has been on our ToDo-list for long, but we have a basic solution design and hopefully we will finally be able to make some progress with added colleagues.