Organic groups allows a group administrator to add users to his or her group. OG Access should have some UI to allow section editors/admin to easily assign editors to their section, or any subsections of the current section.

It seems to be a bottle neck in needing the site administrator (or one with very many permissions) to be in charge of adding all users.

Using the example on Workbench Access

  • Museum
    • Exhibits
      • Exhibits Staff
    • Library
      • Library Staff
      • Library Visitors

In this example, there should be an easy way for those who manage the Exhibits section to add staff to the Exhibit Staff section, without needing to ask a 'super admin' to add those users.

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agentrickard
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commented

Makes sense. Would require a sub-permission to 'assign workbench access', and changes to workbench_access_user_form().

Presumably, these new editors could not use the current admin UI, but would have to use the 'Section' tab on a user page. Yes?

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JGonzalez commented

I think this would be the best approach. I think possibly a UI to be built that lists a users sections he manages, with the ability to add users to his sections would work as well, so that 'user page' isn't overload with administrative tasks.

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Courtney.B commented

This functionality would be awesome to have!

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bbinkovitz commented

Would it be expedient to add support for Administer Users By Role rather than duplicate functionality with another method of permission delegation?

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agentrickard
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commented

I don't think so, because the UI for the settings are different.

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jan.ptacek commented

Hi, i was in need of this feature, I tried to reuse the workbench_access_editors dialog:
first add a permission for assigning users into sections you got access to

function workbench_access_permission() {
+    'assign workbench subaccess' => array(
+      'title' => t('Assign users to OWN Workbench Access sections'),
+    ),

fix autocompletion for subassigners:

+/**
+ * Access callback for autocompletion
+ */
+function workbench_access_autocomplete_access() {
+  if (user_access('assign workbench access') || user_access('assign workbench subaccess')) {
+    return TRUE;
+  }
+  return FALSE;
+}

$items['workbench_access/autocomplete/%/%'] = array(
     'page callback' => 'workbench_access_autocomplete',
     'page arguments' => array(2, 3),
-    'access arguments' => array('assign workbench access'),
+    'access callback' => 'workbench_access_autocomplete_access',
     'type' => MENU_CALLBACK,
     'file' => 'workbench_access.pages.inc',
   );

then I have created an editors tab in my customised content overview, rendering the std workbench_access_editors callback, and limiting the access in my own access callback that checks whether I can access the section I try to add to:

$items['admin/my-content/%/editors'] = array(
			'title' => 'Share',
			'description' => 'Allow fellows to edit.',
			'page callback' => 'workbench_access_editors',
			'page arguments' => array('taxonomy', 2),
			'access callback' => 'MY_MODULE_menu_access',
			'access arguments' => array('taxonomy', 2),
			'type' => MENU_LOCAL_TASK,
			'weight' => 10,
			'file' => 'workbench_access.admin.inc',
			'file path' => drupal_get_path('module', 'workbench_access'),
	);

function MY_MODULE_menu_access() {
	$args = func_get_args();
	$section = array_pop($args);
	$account = $GLOBALS['user'];
	if (
	      user_access('assign workbench access')
	  || (user_access('assign workbench subaccess') && node_access('update', $section, $account))
	) {
		return TRUE;
	}
	return FALSE;
}

so far 3 days of drupal menus, tabs & workbench_access tinkering and not finished yet but I like it ;)

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SlayJay commented
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any update to this? I can't believe this basic functionality is missing