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By JonathanDStopchick on
Hiya all, I've installed drupal, and am working great with it, except that I have dozens of roles, and as such, it goes wayyy off the right side of screen with the excess ones. This makes it extremely difficult to assign permission as you can imagine, is there a way to show the roles more frequently so I can line em' up?
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If you click on the role
If you click on the role name at the top of the page, you'll be able to assign permissions just to that role.
If you've got loads of roles, you might want to consider making the permissions cumulative as much as possible - so you combine different roles together to get various permissions sets instead of having duplicate permissions in each one.
well you've made my day!
Why oh why is it always the simple thingsa in life that put the biggest smile on your face.
I've been struggling with this for the last few days on a site i've been wroking on, never even thought to just click on the role heading.......genius!!
thx loads, save me putting post it notes on the site of monitor now trying to line the colums and rows up whilst I scroll about......lol.......i'm not joking either....hehe
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Still, the user role
Still, the user role interface with many roles and many permissions is ugly at best, horrible and unusable at worst. Lots of things in Drupal gets tested for the 'small & simple site' scenario, and when things get complex, it gets ugly. There's room for improvement for sure.
Jonathan; you can search if there's already an issue about this, and if not, open a new one and explain your problem. If you can, contribute some code / suggestions to fix it.
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'check all' box
Has anyone ever designed a "check all" patch for those endlessly scrolling permissions lists? I've sporadically combed the fora but not found such a beast. 'twould be very useful.
basically it
This does basically what you desire: http://drupal.org/node/78941
BTW - permissions are additive - if you select "authenticated" then you've effectively selected them all (except for anonymous, of course).
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vertical
Thanks -- with a lot of modules installed, it's the vertical lists (number of discrete permissions per user role) that my admins find onerous to scroll & tick, actually, not the horizontal ones (number of user roles), but every little bit helps.
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I see - well, it should be trivial for you to look at kkaefer's code and modify it to add in the functionality that you describe. I look forward to seeing the patch :)
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