14.9 Release Notes

John,

We are now on 14.9.   I like that Lithium has picked up the pace on releases and implementing changes / features quickly.  Kudos Lithium.

It may just be me, but a byproduct seems to be that the admin controls for users keeps changing as well and it becomes a bit of a head scratching moment to devine what switch now controls which feature.

Case in point:   There used to be permissions to get at admin metrics, and another to allow user reports, and another for CIC (sunset) and LSI.

Today, I'm trying to give a non-admin permission to get at admin metrics and can no longer do this - at least not in a way I can figure out in 15 mins of trial and error.  I can give LSI permissions easily - check.  I see a setting to give user reports permission in admin, but even when checked that is not available to the person and neither are the admin metrics.

I know there may be a strategic goal to move metrics all into LSI,  and maybe that will be good, but there was a wealth of info available in advanced metrics and I'd really like to surface that for some people without making them admins.

Thoughts?

EDIT - Interestingly, I solved the problem by using a role that had been created some versions back and included the permissions for admin metrics.  Giving this role enables what I want, but I doubt I could create the role anew based on the current set of selectable permissions.  However, an unwanted (in this case) byproduct of that pre-existing role is that it may give some access to community structure which I don't want this user to have.  I have edited the individual user settings and denied anything I can conceive of which would trigger access to community structure.  Does the role override the individual settings for the user?  If so, I would need to edit the role and remove them, but that would break things for others.  

Mark