The Drupal APC usability report gives us a grade B on "managing users and access control" (page 35). They formulated the following recommendation based on user feedback:

Web's clients are often confused between access to modules and access to content on specific areas of a website. Some care should be taken to create simple concepts to clarify these functions in the access control interfaces.

The attached patch tries to clarify this.

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#6 permissionsTextDrupal7.png31.78 KBTor Arne Thune
perm_0.patch2.46 KBdries

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Steven’s picture

Steven commented
Status: Reviewed & tested by the community » Needs work

Double spaced sentences -1.

coreb’s picture

coreb commented
Version: x.y.z » 6.x-dev

Moving out of the "x.y.z" queue to a real queue.

pancho’s picture

pancho
Location UTC+2 🇪🇺 EU
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Version: 6.x-dev » 7.x-dev
Component: base system » user system

string freeze, therefore D7

sutharsan’s picture

sutharsan commented
Component: user system » usability

Moving all usability issues to Drupal - component usability.

lambic’s picture

lambic commented
Component: usability » base system

Permissions don\'t let you control access individual posts

should probably be

Permissions don\'t let you control access to individual posts

Tor Arne Thune’s picture

Tor Arne Thune commented
Version: 7.x-dev » 8.x-dev
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new permissionsTextDrupal7.png31.78 KB

See attached screenshot and text below for how the permissions description is written in the UI now in 7.0. Moving this issue to 8.x.

Permissions let you control what users can do and see on your site. You can define a specific set of permissions for each role. (See the Roles page to create a role). Two important roles to consider are Authenticated Users and Administrators. Any permissions granted to the Authenticated Users role will be given to any user who can log into your site. You can make any role the Administrator role for the site, meaning this will be granted all new permissions automatically. You can do this on the User Settings page. You should be careful to ensure that only trusted users are given this access and level of control of your site.

dawehner’s picture

dawehner
Primary language German
commented
Component: base system » user system
Issue summary: View changes
Status: Needs work » Fixed

This help text is much shorter now

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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