Moodle

Roles administration improvements - META

Details

  • Type: Improvement Improvement
  • Status: Closed Closed
  • Priority: Minor Minor
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • Affects Version/s: 1.8
  • Fix Version/s: 2.0
  • Component/s: Roles / Access
  • Labels:
    None
  • Affected Branches:
    MOODLE_18_STABLE
  • Fixed Branches:
    MOODLE_20_STABLE

Description

What can done that would help admins to understand roles...

Issue Links

This issue has a non-specific relationship to:
MDL-8352 Fully separate CONTEXT_COURSE, SITEID from COURSE_SYSTEM Blocker Closed
MDL-7643 Urgent: Missing role and capability documentations Critical Closed
MDL-7633 Move legacy capabilities down the bottom of the list in a new section to help avoid confusion Minor Closed
MDL-17081 Implement import/export "Permissions" settings for "Manage roles" tab Major Open
MDL-7231 Add user trusts Minor Open
MDL-8316 Feature Changed in Role Mappings - Is it wanted in core? Minor Closed
MDL-7392 cloning and import/export of role definitions Minor Closed
MDL-13538 new effective permissions tab in user section Minor Closed
MDL-16966 Improve the user selector used on the assign roles and group memebers pages Minor Closed
MDL-16965 Automatically genereate an explanation for the has_capability computation for a given user in a given context Minor Closed
MDL-9013 Improve explanation of legacy roles Major Closed
MDL-8249 Automatic translation of role names Minor Open
MDL-9466 'Override templates' to apply common sets of permissions in modules Minor Open
MDL-13228 Improve the transparency of Roles and Capabilities by adding a View permissions tab Major Closed
MDL-8523 Show default capabilities in role definition Minor Closed
MDL-8522 Add role reset button into role definition form Minor Closed
MDL-8521 New capability for "safe" overriding Minor Closed
MDL-8373 Add new predefined role "Authenticated user" for all logged in users Minor Closed
MDL-8367 Add configuration option to select role for guest - guestroleid Minor Closed
MDL-8313 Define role should have a basic mode that only uses checkboxes Minor Closed
MDL-8312 Provide basic Assign Role that only shows roles appropriate to context level Minor Closed
MDL-7859 Capability definition should include list of contexts where usable Minor Closed
This issue has been marked as being related by:
MDL-11421 new function in mod/*modname*/lib.php '*modname*_get_relevant_capabilites' Minor Closed

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Pieter van der Hijden added a comment -

They do not have to understand it as long as you can guarantee that the new roles behave exactly the same way as the old ones. Only if they want to do something special they need to understand it.

Basic documentation that is missing is an explanation of the list of capabilities. Any idea what mod/forum:throttlingapplies means?

  1. Document the roles as they existed in 1.6.
  2. Ensure that the default settings in 1.7 / 1.8 is exactly the same as in 1.6
  3. Ensure that the inner working of the roles mechanism corresponds with the settings.
  4. Give admins a tool to visualise the actual setting in a specific case (in stead of 25 mouse clicks, only 1).
  5. Give admins a tool to go back to the default settings once they make a mess of it.
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Pieter van der Hijden added a comment - They do not have to understand it as long as you can guarantee that the new roles behave exactly the same way as the old ones. Only if they want to do something special they need to understand it. Basic documentation that is missing is an explanation of the list of capabilities. Any idea what mod/forum:throttlingapplies means?
  1. Document the roles as they existed in 1.6.
  2. Ensure that the default settings in 1.7 / 1.8 is exactly the same as in 1.6
  3. Ensure that the inner working of the roles mechanism corresponds with the settings.
  4. Give admins a tool to visualise the actual setting in a specific case (in stead of 25 mouse clicks, only 1).
  5. Give admins a tool to go back to the default settings once they make a mess of it.
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Pieter van der Hijden added a comment -
  1. Ensure that the important tools "Login As" and "Change role to..." are working correctly (both are not at the moment).
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Pieter van der Hijden added a comment -
  1. Ensure that the important tools "Login As" and "Change role to..." are working correctly (both are not at the moment).
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Daniel Neis added a comment -

This related issue suggests to implements import/export of roles with it's capabilities and "allow_assigns" and "allow_overrides" in an easy way

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Daniel Neis added a comment - This related issue suggests to implements import/export of roles with it's capabilities and "allow_assigns" and "allow_overrides" in an easy way
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Petr Škoda (skodak) added a comment -

Mostly fixed in 2.O, thanks for the feedback. New meta issue will be probably created for 2.1.

Petr Škoda

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Petr Škoda (skodak) added a comment - Mostly fixed in 2.O, thanks for the feedback. New meta issue will be probably created for 2.1. Petr Škoda

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