A situation which I encounter when making a tweak to a user roles permissions is that when clicking on the roles page, I often click "edit role" rather than "edit permissions" in the roles table. There is a lot more to do under "edit permissions" than under "edit role" (1 field), so it seems silly that these two links are given equal prominence. I suggest we either do something to reduce the prominence of "edit role" so we can steer people where they probably want to go, or ditch the role editing page entirely and replace the role text with textareas.

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catch’s picture

catch
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+1 for a textfield right on the table (similar to the book drag and drop interface) and losing the extra click, and for otherwise making it harder to click the wrong link.

sutharsan’s picture

sutharsan commented
Component: user.module » usability

Moving all usability issues to Drupal - component usability.

David_Rothstein’s picture

David_Rothstein commented
Component: usability » user.module
Issue tags: +Usability

It sounds like this might be a duplicate of #393406: "Edit" links on roles admin page are confusing to users: "Edit permissions" should be the primary link (or really the other way around, but there is more activity there). The solution proposed here is a bit different though.

michaelfavia’s picture

michaelfavia commented

Adding descriptions and the additional elements that contrib modules might want to add justify a page for the edit, etc. But i agree here and have relabeled the edit role (rename role and delete role) which should sufficiently steer people away. Agreed or would yuo like to approach this differently and be wiling to contribute the code to do so.

Bojhan’s picture

Bojhan commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

http://drupal.org/node/393406 - This issue should be discussed here, we need to make edit role less prominent or remove it from that interface.