Provides click & drag for checkboxes on the permissions page to administer permissions faster.
Lightweight Drupal 8 alternative to Fast permissions administration (FPA) module.
Implements the wonderful Drag Check JS library fron @scarlac: https://github.com/scarlac/drag-check-js for the permissions matrix page.
Alternatives:
- Fast permissions administration (FPA) module
- Browser plugins which address the same problem (poor for current FF versions)
Installation
Manual installation
- Download and extract scarlac's drag-check-js library (master) to the "libraries" folder (/libraries), named "drag-check-js". This folder for example should contain a "dist" folder as direct subfolder.
- Download and enable this module
- Open the permission administration admin/people/permissions and use like described at "How to use"
- Done! Happy using!
Composer installation
Add this to your "repositories" section:
{
"type": "package",
"package": {
"name": "scarlac/drag-check-js",
"version": "2.0.2",
"type": "drupal-library",
"dist": {
"url": "https://github.com/scarlac/drag-check-js/archive/v2.0.2.zip",
"type": "zip"
}
}
}
and then
composer require scarlac/drag-check-js drupal/permissions_dragcheck
Dependencies
How to use:
- Simply click & drag on a checkbox to check multiple checkboxes at once.
Optional integration with "Permissions filtered by modules"
Optionally you may want to use the https://www.drupal.org/project/pfm module whichs adds a lightweiht filter by module to the permissions overview.
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and
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Project information
- Project categories: Administration tools
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