"Re-run Course" option not shown in Studio Home

[Daniel Buchmann]

Problem: course team members are unable to re-run courses.

According to line 287 of cms/templates/index.html, three conditions needs to be met for the re-run course option to appear.
In my case, two of them are met: ALLOW_COURSE_RERUNS is set to the default value of true, and course_creator_status is set to "granted".
But rerun_creator_status is false.

According to line 468 of cms/djangoapps/contentstore/views/course.py (and also line 281), GlobalStaff().has_user(request.user) needs to return true, which effectively means the user must have the global staff siterole?

Line 280 (a comment) even states "Only global staff (PMs) are able to rerun courses during the soft launch".
But the "Building and Running an Open edX Course" documentation says: "To re-run a course, you must have course creation privileges in Studio and you must be a member of the course team for the course you want to re-run."

So... now I'm confused.
Why does the cms code say that a studio user needs to be global staff, while the documentation says team membership and course creation privilege is enough?
Or did I misinterprete the code/misunderstand the docs.

[Leslie Gerhat]

Hi Daniel, 

Course re-runs are limited to global staff at this time. The documentation is incorrect. I'll raise this with our doc team to make the change. 

Thanks!

Leslie

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[Daniel Buchmann]

That's not what I was hoping for, so to speak.
Can I ask what the reason behind this deicision is?

I'd rather have the Studio developers fix the code so course team members can re-run their own course, than asking the doc team to fix the docs.. :-)

[Leslie Gerhat]

Hi Daniel, 

Thanks for the feedback. We've restricted this because many platform administrators, including our own edx.org site, want only a certain group of people with high privleges to be able to re-run a course because of the implications around having the right licensing for the course, making sure that you're allowed to re-run the course, etc. We'd welcome a pull request that makes this a configurable option, however we don't plan on making this change ourselves. 

Thanks!

Leslie

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