Problem/Motivation
A shortcut set can be assigned to an individual user, but there is no way to assign a shortcut set as the default for a specific role.
Proposed resolution
The
Shortcut Per Role →
module solves this problem in Drupal contrib. However, this module has a serious limitation which, IMHO, excludes it from consideration for inclusion into Drupal core until it can be resolved properly in contrib.
The Shortcut Per Role module works well when each user is generally assigned a single role like "administrator", "content editor", "moderator", "user admin", etc. However that module become complicated and less useful if your roles and permissions model is such that each user has multiple roles. This is the strategy that was adopted with Acquia's Lightning distro, where each content type on the site had a "Type creator" and "Type editor" role. This permissions approach allows for fine-grain control for large teams, but makes building competing shortcut sets per role a very challenging problem. The module currently handles this issue by inheriting the shortcut set assigned to the highest weighted role, but at least one person found this annoying and would rather combine sets. Combining sets comes with its own set of issues as well, such as the order links should appear in, the strategy to reduce duplicate links, and the UX issue caused when a user has many roles making the shortcut list of links extremely long and untenable inside a Toolbar.
Probably the only sane approach is to either allow the user to select from a list of shortcut sets that have been allowed for one or more of the roles they have, or have a dropdown to let users swap out shortcut sets right from the shortcut bar itself.
Remaining tasks
Decide on an approach to handle multiple qualifying shortcut sets for users that have multiple roles.
User interface changes
TBD.
API changes
TBD.
Data model changes
TBD.
Release notes snippet
TBD.
Original report by @mariomaric
Posted by
zenlan →
on February 9, 2011 at 2:07pm @
d.o forum →
:
I am able to assign a shortcut set to an individual user but can't find a way to assign that shortcut set as the default for a specific role.
Is it possible to assign a shortcut set to a role via configuration?