drupal 6.x, v6 transparent admin
I am looking for transparent administration, open, visible and sometimes editable admin settings with security. based on permissions, locked individually (as a node?), password protected, view and/or edit choice for admin inserted at the top or bottom of all admin/settings pages. even better, password or radio button next to every settings choice as viewable and/or editable similar to form field protect. a prominent notification to the user, “you can view this page of administration settings, if they require edit, please email administration with your request link”. Possibly even attached comment or site note section, ability to insert instruction or voting widget.
I gather this is the approach taken by adding access control to the core and maybe it is similar to drupal core building. I have been looking at everything I can find and I’m not a programmer yet, so I need to pass what I’ve found on to someone else here. If someone can put these pieces together or have experience with something similar with any version 4,5,6,7. i'm listing this at all of these locations aswell. Rsvp, elisa

http://drupal.org/node/109157 access control
http://drupal.org/node/131101#comment-735943 Add disabled attribute to protected fields
http://drupal.org/node/245900 How to Protect Nodes From Editing on Demand
http://drupal.org/node/31143#comment-796152 Node Privacy by Role not working
http://drupal.org/project/nodeaccess nodeaccess
http://drupal.org/node/126129#comment-703933 password protect a page
http://drupal.org/node/222263#comment-902378 Port of Content access for D6
http://drupal.org/node/29991#comment-51352 Protected content
http://drupal.org/node/13266 Show block to certain users or roles only- Drupal 4.6
http://drupal.org/project/simple_access simple access
http://drupal.org/node/118404#comment-735895 View, but not edit, field at node/xxx/edit

Comments

mantyla’s picture

mantyla commented
Project: Nodeaccess » Drupal core
Version: master » 7.x-dev
Component: User interface » admin.module

Did I understand this right: you want the ability to view admin options without being able to edit them, and you want the ability to select individually which permissions and options can be edited, and by whom? Sounds confusing. The user interface of such a system would be horrendous for an average user to understand.

I don't really understand the need for such a function, but this isn't really the place to ask. This sounds much more like a core feature.

maartenvg’s picture

maartenvg commented

In my opinion this shouldn't be in Core. Ever. This would make the entire administration overly complex and it is definitely not something that the majority of people can use.
Such a feature would fit nicely as a separate module, or perhaps a module that collects and combines already existing modules.

marcingy’s picture

marcingy commented
Component: admin.module » ajax system
Status: Active » Closed (won't fix)