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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon ellmetha

Group Roles

Open nikkelj opened this issue 7 years ago • 4 comments

Eh, I lied, I have a couple more to post ;).

Another administrative feature I've found myself wishing for is a group roles. Maybe there are some tricks I am missing, but it is quite time consuming to assign permissions one by one.

A related issue is that the group forum_permissions admin does not by default show the forum each created permission belongs to, which makes it very hard to manage, since one then has to drill into each one to see the details. I've tried overloading the forum_permissions app admin to attempt fixing that, I haven't been able to do that successfully for reasons I don't understand yet (I have overloaded some of the other ones successfully).

nikkelj avatar Aug 14 '17 16:08 nikkelj

Privileges? There are no "privileges" in django-machina but a permission system (and there is no forum_privileges package). You can easily apply common permissions to all your users by creating groups (with all your users in it) and assigning global forum permissions to it. But I guess that you're talking about roles (ie. groups of permissions) that could ease the way permissions are assigned or not.

ellmetha avatar Aug 15 '17 02:08 ellmetha

Yes, I meant apps/forum_permissions. It appears you guessed correctly, roles would be the correct word to describe my desire. I desire to assign multiple group permissions to a role once, and then only have to assign roles to boards.

nikkelj avatar Aug 15 '17 04:08 nikkelj

Globals work in some cases, but I (and I'm sure others) have some use cases that globals don't serve well

nikkelj avatar Aug 15 '17 04:08 nikkelj

This thread looks quite old, but I found myself wanting the same thing. I'd like to have a set of permissions ( a 'role' or 'cluster') that I can apply to multiple groups for the same or different forums. For example "can only read and download" where all permissions are turned off except seeing/reading the forum and downloading attachments. Or one "settings for private forum" that I can apply to specific subforum/group combinations.

What is the view on such a grouping of permissions?

The displaying of the forum in the changelist was recently added by PR #121, by the way.

BrendaH avatar Jul 19 '18 14:07 BrendaH