I think this is going to be dealt with in SMART Connect release where you will basically be able to toggle on/off user-defined access to individual functionality rather than set levels?

In our list of tasks for Connect/Smart 4 we had:
Desktop security option A - Update SMART Desktop user levels to be more useful and correlated to work for planned Connect implementations.
OR
Desktop security option B - Create a configurable user permission system inside SMART desktop. Tasks would be identified (create patrols, edit patrols, create queries, edit queries, etc.), each user could be assigned a set of tasks.

We settled on option A in the contract as it stands now, so it would be very useful if the UC could agree on changes to permission levels that will be implemented for 4.0.

The desktop and connect permissions etc will be related, but separate. I think it would be best if we put security and permissions on an agenda item at our next conference call/demo. We have written all our plans into the design document, but I understand that it is pretty hard to conceptualize from reading, so some conversation over the phone will be a much better way of explaining it I believe.

I confess I assumed we had settled for Option B!

Yes, lets put this on the discussion agenda for the call.

hasn't this been addressed in a recent discussion under Connect?

I think this should now be applying more granular/custom permissions in Desktop.

We have more permissions/types in Profiles to control access to various parts of those data sets, but the standard patrol/observations/query/report permissions is the same as it has been for a long time now.