I'm working on a site with loads of content types, many of which have the same permissions setup in this module. I'm having to input the permissions by hand, which is pretty tiresome. What would be a lot cooler is a drop-down list above the grid of tickboxes, labeled something like "Take permissions from". The default option would be "tickboxes". The other options would be the other content types in the Drupal install.

I'm happy to write the patch which would add this functionality, but I don't need it for my own site (it would take me longer to write the patch than it would to enter the permission by hand). If anyone wants this functionality, reply here and I'll get on with writing the patch.

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fago
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Location Vienna
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That sounds like a nice feature - so I'd be interested in that patch. However we need to take care that everything is synchronized right - so if we change access from a parent type, all sub types should be changed too. Then when there are changes on drupal's permission page (content_access_user_admin_perm_submit) which don't apply to all synchronized types, then I think we would have to remove the sychronization and tell the user about that.

fago’s picture

fago
Primary language German
Location Vienna
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That sounds like a nice feature - so I'd be interested in that patch. However we need to take care that everything is synchronized right - so if we change access from a parent type, all sub types should be changed too. Then when there are changes on drupal's permission page (content_access_user_admin_perm_submit) which don't apply to all synchronized types, then I think we would have to remove the sychronization and tell the user about that.

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gisle
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Primary language Norwegian Bokmål
Location Norway
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Status: Active » Closed (outdated)

No patch in 11 years. Closing.