If users lack the plupload permission the upload form should automatically use the default upload [#1252114]

There's a message:
You have permissions to view this tab, but not to upload images. Please inform an administrator that you need the 'bulk upload files with plupload' permission.
I think it doesn't make sense, for several reasons:
1) Users don't want to know anything about site administration. They just want to use the site.
2) Now, if there's an configuration error, do we really want every user to spam the site support staff ?
3) We should really respect site admin decision on this: If the user can't mass upload images, that is ok. We should not treat site admin as an idiot by default. Mentioning this in module documentation is enough.
4) Drupal doesn't have good API to remove printed messages. So if I want to remove this, I need to resort to ugly workarounds.

Comments

Comment #1

crea CreditAttribution: crea commented 17 August 2011 at 15:02

Title:

node_gallery_upload_image_form() suggest users to know site administration tasks

» node_gallery_upload_image_form() suggests users to know site administration tasks

Comment #2

dddave CreditAttribution: dddave commented 22 August 2011 at 09:53

I don't follow your argumentation here:

1) If user don't care fine but if they want to use the tab they need to know what to do.
2)Spam? If something is wrong the staff should be notified about this.
3)Nobody is treated as an idiot and implying that justintime and scroogie did so is borderline offensive. If the user can't mass upload they shouldn't see the tab. If they see the tab the "natural" understanding is that they should be able to use it. And if user see the tab they WANT to use it for sure.
4) True but is it better to let user frustratingly click on a tab they cannot use without a message?

Or am I missing the point here?

Comment #3

crea CreditAttribution: crea commented 22 August 2011 at 10:23

1) If they are not allowed to use the tab, they should just see regular upload form. It's actually built-in in that tab. Users don't need to know anything about site administration. Sites may want to give mass upload permission to only handful of users.
2) Users shouldn't be made testers. I mean they ARE testers, but only the last line - you must have working product before they start using it. If something is wrong, it's not user's problem. It's actually bad for PR because users may think site administrators don't know their stuff and can't even configure the software.
3) I didn't want to be offensive. See 1 - there's regular upload form build-in. There is no need for the message.
4) See 1

Comment #4

dddave CreditAttribution: dddave commented 22 August 2011 at 21:54

Title:	node_gallery_upload_image_form() suggests users to know site administration tasks	» If users lack the plupload permission the upload form should automatically use the default upload
Category:	bug	» feature

As NG is atm it works as designed. You wish for a other/better behavior. So let's make that clear. I am sure justintime accepts a patch for this.