Come together with the global Drupal community in Rotterdam, 28 Sept – 1 Oct 2026. Sessions, contribution, connection, and Early Bird savings until 8 June.I get tired of checking all the permissions in admin/user/access, so I added a javascript checkbox in the column header to fix it. I know this isn't done exactly correctly, but I wasn't sure how to do it. Here are the changes:
- In user.module around line 2013, when it goes through the user roles, it returns a header cell with the class col-select. The function also calls theme_column_select_header_cell (which doesn't actually return anything, because otherwise the settings get set the same number of times as there are roles. I don't know how to fix this).
- theme.inc around line 1170 added theme_column_select_header_cell
- added column_select.js to misc. there's probably a more elegant way to do this but I can't figure it out.
If anyone would like to help get this patch right, I would appreciate it.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| colselect.patch | 3.82 KB | bennybobw |
Comments
Comment #1
panchoThis is a feature request, so D7.
Comment #2
Jaza commentedClosing this issue for 2 reasons:
1. It's been inactive for 2 years
2. I personally think adding this would reduce usability: the good of having convenience for selecting all permissions in a given role, is outweighed by the bad of this being a security risk (too easy for users to assign all permissions to a given role) and of adding extra complexity to the UI; also, in D7 we have the admin role, which has all permissions by default, thus making this even less necessary
If anyone wants to pick up on this, feel free to re-open in 8.x-dev.