Problem/Motivation

It's not self-evident what a permission called "Administer content" includes.

Proposed resolution

I think it needs a description to explain its effects and how it differs from other similar permissions.

Remaining tasks

Come up with a good description. :)

User interface changes

N/A

API changes

N/A

N/A

Comments

traviscarden’s picture

Status: Active » Needs review
Issue tags: +Novice
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Maybe something like "Perform administrative content operations such as promoting, changing ownership, and editing revisions across all content types."

izus’s picture

Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community

Hi,
looks good for me.
Thanks

webchick’s picture

Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Needs review
Issue tags: +Usability

Makes sense, but let's get some UX team review on this. This is a bit wordier than we tend to get on such descriptions.

xjm’s picture

Component: node.module » node system
Issue summary: View changes

(Merging "node system" and "node.module" components for 8.x; disregard.)

shaundychko’s picture

I understand the desire to not be wordy, but I think it's important to list point by point everything this permission allows. Is "For all content types, this allows: promote to front page, change ownership, edit all revisions." the complete list?

interimblau’s picture

interimblau’s picture

I have tested the patch and it works for me

giammi’s picture

Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community
StatusFileSize
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Tested the patch and works for me too. Added a prtscr.

catch’s picture

Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Needs review

Still needs usability review. We went through lots of permissions to remove the descriptions. I'm also not sure explicitly listing what this allows you to do helps - modules add other features that use this permission, or change the permission on those quite often.

selwynpolit’s picture

Bojhan’s picture

Status: Needs review » Needs work

This should indeed be much more concise, take a look at the other permissions. We tend to start with the actions, we don't add "Perform administrative content operations". If needed add "and more" or "etc.".

Promote, change ownership, and editing revisions across all content types.

acabouet’s picture

Status: Needs work » Needs review
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new659 bytes

Updated the Administer content description to be less verbose: "Promote, change ownership, edit revisions, and perform other administrative tasks across all content types."

Status: Needs review » Needs work

The last submitted patch, 12: node-administer-nodes-description-1980010-14.patch, failed testing.

acabouet’s picture

Status: Needs work » Needs review
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new644 bytes

Sorry, trying that again. Looks like there was an issue with the patch filename.

Status: Needs review » Needs work

The last submitted patch, 14: nodes-administer-node-description-1980010-14.patch, failed testing.

acabouet’s picture

Weird! I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong. This patch is working for me locally.

Test log contains this error:
Output: [error: modules/node/node.module: No such file or directory].

Anyway, my proposed updated description: "Promote, change ownership, edit revisions, and perform other tasks across all content types."

acabouet’s picture

Status: Needs work » Needs review
StatusFileSize
new524 bytes

I figured it out! Just an error in the way I was generating the patch. Sorry for all the failed tests.

darol100’s picture

Status: Needs review » Reviewed & tested by the community

@acabouet,

I have test your patch on SimplyTest.Me and seem to be working fine.

alexpott’s picture

Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Fixed

Committed c1a1735 and pushed to 8.x. Thanks!

  • Commit c1a1735 on 8.x by alexpott:
    Issue #1980010 by acabouet, TravisCarden: Add description to "Administer...

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.