Permissions Module
Posted 1256210278|%O ago by 
wstone
Summary
A module to display the current permissions of the site.
Implementation
[[module Permissions options...]]
Displays the permissions table similar to the one found on the site management page. Each cell would have a disabled checkbox that is set to either true/false based on whether that permission is active for the given category and user level.
If more than one category or user level is requested using parameters, then they are shown one after another on the page.
Selectors
Applies to Permissions module:
- Select by user level: level="level-selector"
(modified version of this selector applies to Private1 module) - Select by category: category="category-selector"
(also applies to ListPages and CountPages modules) - Select by pagename: pagename="pagename-selector"
Level selector:
- Of the form: level="anon|wikidot|member|mod|admin"
- "." means current user level (default)
- "*" means all user levels
- else, a list of space/comma delimited levels
- levels are by default additive non-additive (level AND level AND level)
- "-level" means exclude this page (AND NOT)
Category selector:
- "." means current category (default)
- "*" means all categories
- else, a list of space/comma delimited categories
- categories are by default additive non-additive (category AND category AND category)
- "-category" means exclude this category (AND NOT)
Pagename selector:
- "." means current page (default)
- "*" means all pages (equivalent to category="*")
- else, a list of space/comma delimited pagenames
- pagenames are by default additive non-additive (pagename AND pagename AND pagename)
- "-pagename" means exclude this page (AND NOT)
Example of use
[[module Permissions level="* -mod -admin" category="forum" pagename="forum-start"]]
This would show permissions for all wikidot users, except moderators and administrators, from the forum category, and the page forum-start in the _default category.
list
How about this module acts like the rest of the modules — I say we remove the list parameter and replace it with these three:
notes
Can you explain what you mean by that? You've completely lost me on that one! :)
hidecategory
Not needed, just specify categories… as I mentioned above
hideclass
Not needed, just specify user level… as I mentioned above
~ Leiger - Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer
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That sounds like a more convenient way of handling it. Feel free to update the wiki in accordance with your post.
Maybe it should be called "adminNotes" or something more informative…?
Okay, well are you sure that needs to be put into the module? I mean, it's static text, so it can easily be added to the page by the site owner if they want it… I've moved that part to "other information" at the very end, so it's easy to delete/change to the same format as the rest.
I used the format used in the ListPages module design docs for this, because it's more flexible than using a table.
~ Leiger - Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer
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Great! I want to start using this for new documentation, the old table format is a royal pain.
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OK, I think that was me being a bit over-zealous :s
Is now looking far more professional.
I like this. It would be nice to have a small section on the page which tells the current user what permissions they have and not have them confused as to the level they actually are.
Roll out the module :D
I was thinking the same thing. Simply listing the current user's permissions would be much better than having any of this…. but it all goes back to caching restrictions :(
The cache might help with performance, but it also brings with it some serious limitations.
~ Leiger - Wikidot Community Admin - Volunteer
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OK, I've moved this proposal to the design section. Nice work, guys.
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