Per node override message: "Default access control for this content type is being overridden for this node."

Created on 18 June 2011, over 13 years ago
Updated 28 April 2023, over 1 year ago

Hey everyone,

good_man and I discussed this feature in IRC so as he requested, I'm making an official issue thread for the future. Basically, if you have per-node access control enabled, it's currently quite difficult to tell the difference between access control set at the content type level and access control set at the node level.

So we'd like to make this a bit more clear.

One possibility is to print a message at the top of the per-node access control page any time the default content type access control is being overridden at the node level. The message could read:

"Default access control for this content type is being overridden for this node."

This would also work well with the "Reset to defaults" button functionality which allows a node's access control to be reset to the content type defaults. Perhaps instead of that button (at the bottom of the page), there could be a "Reset to defaults" link that appears right after the message above.

Thoughts?

--Ben

✨ Feature request
Status

Active

Version

2.0

Component

Code

Created by

πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States BenK

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