By haopei on

I just enabled Content Permission and User Relationship modules simultaneously, and I get the following message on the "Permissions" page:

"The content access permissions need to be rebuilt. Please visit this page."

What does this mean?

Thanks.

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Go here: admin/content/node-settings
Then "Rebuild Permissions".

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pbarnett commented

Exactly what it says :-)

The Content Permission module is probably asking the question.

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haopei commented

yes, but exactly does it mean to rebuild permissions?

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pbarnett commented

Drupal maintains a table of who can access what; this needs to be rebuilt when a new module affecting user access is enabled.

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haopei commented

Oh I see, thanks.

I assume my current permission settings will not be affected?

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pbarnett commented

As far as I know they won't...

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

It depends how you've configured your site and in what ways you've overridden core settings with contrib modules. When in doubt, test. It's generally a good practice anyway.

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haopei commented

Hi ArtistConk,

What is best practice for testing this stuff?

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

Log in as the roles you've set up and make sure everything is as expected - i.e. user can (and can't) do everything you intended.

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haopei commented

Oh. I have always wondered this - during the time I test this on a live site, other users with the same role may be authorized to do things which I don't want them to do.

I suppose my other option is to put the site on "maintenance" mode, but this is inconvenient for users.

Is there a better practice for this?

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Anonymous (not verified) commented

It's probably best to build this system in a dev installation of the site. Then after it's been sufficiently tested in isolation you can port it over to the live site with minimal downtime.