Assignment Service (AS_)

This service allows a customer application to control the assignment of Referenceware and Courseware assets. Assignments control what assets are made visible to a given user or user group. For more information, see Entitlement/Assignment. For example, if you issue a search using a given key word OLSA does not return all assets that match the specified key word. It scopes the results and returns only those assets that match the specified key word and are part of the user's assignment. Assignment are also used to properly meet any Skillsoft content licensing agreements, for example, Referenceware.

Assignment Types

• Collection assignment - Assignment of Referenceware collections to users and user groups. A collection is a pre-defined grouping of multiple book assets, for example, IT Pro. Collections are a flat list of books; they are not hierarchical. You cannot assign individual books.
• Catalog assignment - Assignment of asset groups or individual assets to users and user groups. An asset group can contain sub-asset groups to create a hierarchical tree structure.

Default assignment - Users get the default assignment if not given a specific asset or collection assignment. The default assignment gives each user access to all Referenceware and Courseware assets that the customer entitlement.