Professor@Mosh
I deeply apologize for the inconvenience this has caused you. This should not have been the case, and I agree, as admins you should be the ones to delegate the view permissions. Here is the current expected behavior: By default, the mapping tab in the "users" is checked. However, only users with the admin, or manager "role" should have view permissions by default. The Mapping page will no longer be visible if all Saved Maps on it are hidden, and this is the case for non admin/manager roles. And view permissions for the maps tab in the resource tree is also disabled by default for non admin/manager roles.
As @mnagel mentioned, this is something we implemented in the beta, and should be functioning properly. I will investigate into your portal and try to understand what caused the deviation from the expected behavior.
