The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.As we build substantially different experiences based on role, it will be important to enable users to choose which role to use as primary for a given session.
This patch introduces a block where users can do that. The selected role is saved in a session variable. We introduce a new method, role_weights_get_user_primary(), that returns the selected session role if there is one, or if not the user's highest weighted role.
| Comment | File | Size | Author |
|---|---|---|---|
| role_weights-block.patch | 2.75 KB | nedjo |
Comments
Comment #1
pfaocleI like the idea (am about to play with patch).
The only suggestion I have is that perhaps a permission is needed? I think in a lot of cases a site admin won't want ordinary users to essentially be able to select their own highest role - the ones set by the admin should stick.
Comment #2
pfaocleJust noticed a new module - rolechanger - might be worth a look in relation to this?
Comment #3
pfaoclerole_weights_change_role_submit() should use $form_state to redirect. Also needs checking against recent HEAD + Drupal 6.
Comment #4
pfaocleComment #5
pfaocle