change the permission name to more clear
igorik - July 3, 2009 - 19:40
| Project: | Notifications |
| Version: | 6.x-2.x-dev |
| Component: | Code |
| Category: | feature request |
| Priority: | minor |
| Assigned: | Unassigned |
| Status: | active |
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Description
Hi
I would like if you could change one of permission name, I think that now it is really confusing.
I speak about these two permissions:
maintain own subscriptions
manage own subscriptions
They have very similar names, I can't remember which permission what to do. (Then I found that maintain permission is doing page with settings on site user/xxx/notifications)
Actually, till now I never find/understand what exactly do permission "manage own subscriptions"
So, would be great if you could change the name of one of these permission to something more different and somewhere to write what the permission "manage own subscriptions" exactly doing.
Thanks for your work on this great module
Igor
http://www.somvprahe.sk
#1
I also was confused by the permission titles.
I found the following description in notification.module to be helpful:
* - maintain own subscriptions = Create / delete own subscriptions* - manage own subscriptions = Access the subscriptions management tab
Based on this, I took that to mean maintain is the more basic permission that all users will need, and then manage is necessary if users should be allowed to view the "Notifications" tab in their user account page.
However, this does not appear to be the case. Between examining the behavior of the site with different combinations of maintain and manage, and looking at notifications.module, it appears that the only permission necessary is maintain (it will allow users to see the users/[uid]/notifications tab as well as seeing the subscribe links on nodes), and that there is no additional functionality that manage grants.
Thanks for the great module and any clarification on this issue.
#2
After playing with this more, I realized what the manage permission does.
With this permission enabled, a new link ("Administer your subscriptions") will take you from the overview tab to the subscriptions tab on the users account page.
If manage own subscription is enabled, a new tab called 'subscriptions' will be displayed on the user's account page. This tab will allow the users to administer their subscriptions: they will be able to select any or all of their existing subscriptions and perform update operations on those subscriptions. The update operations include the ability to change the send method (mail, sms, etc), change the send frequency (every hour, every week, etc), or to activiate, deactivate, or delete subscriptions.