Role ID column is blank when user role doesn't have "administer permissions" [#3155195]

When a user's role has the permission to view the "track role" tabs, the "role ID" column is completely blank when the user's role doesn't also have the "administer permissions" permission.

Can this just be a text description instead of a link back to edit the role for these users? (Or, failing that, a text description for everyone? There's so many other ways to get into edit the role and this one doesn't seem that necessary.)

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Comment #1

26 June 2020 at 19:19

kpaxman created an issue. See original summary.

Comment #2

kpaxman commented 26 June 2020 at 19:20

Issue summary:

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Comment #3

kpaxman commented 26 June 2020 at 19:28

Checking further, this is also true on the Role Watchdog History page, even though those are just text and not a link. Surely there's *some* way of showing the name of the role though...

Comment #4

gaurav.kapoor commented 1 July 2020 at 10:18

As of now only solution is to give the required permission to view the User Role labels. Please do update here if you find any other solution. Thanks.

Comment #5

kid_mousikos commented 23 October 2020 at 14:18

For those of you that are looking for a workaround, I implemented the following hook. It will display roles for users with the 'access role_watchdog reports' permission. Add it to your module of choice and you should be good to go. This is not intended as a proper fix for the issue, just a workaround. A proper fix will require the module to undergo some architectural changes.

/**
 * Implements hook_entity_access().
 */
function YOURMODULE_entity_access(EntityInterface $entity, $operation, AccountInterface $account) {
  // Allow access to user role entities, if the user has the right permissions and is visiting an authorized page.
  $route = \Drupal::routeMatch()->getRouteObject();
  if (!empty($route)) {
    $current_contextual_path = $route->getPath();
    $allowed_paths = [
      '/admin/role-watchdog-history',
      '/user/{user}/track-grants',
      '/user/{user}/track-history',
    ];

    foreach ($allowed_paths as $allowed_path) {
      if (strpos($current_contextual_path, $allowed_path) !== FALSE && $entity instanceof Role) {
        $result = AccessResult::neutral();

        if ($operation == 'view') {
          $result = AccessResult::allowedIfHasPermission($account, 'access role_watchdog reports');
        }

        return $result;
      }
    }
  }

}