Decide what to do about important contextual links when that module is disabled or restricted

Created on 13 February 2013, about 12 years ago

Updated 10 February 2025, 13 days ago

Follow up from #1874664-110: Introduce toolbar level "Edit" mode that shows all contextual links → . In that issue, we removed "Edit" as a primary tab (MENU_CONTEXT_PAGE) from node pages, and instead made it a contextual link (which it already was on all pages where a node is rendered other than its primary page) on the primary node page as well.

That has repercussions though:

What if you disable contextual.module? Then, there's no link to edit a node from its view page. I suggested in #1874664-112: Introduce toolbar level "Edit" mode that shows all contextual links → that that's ok, because you can still edit it from admin/content. After all, a link to edit a node from its view page is a "contextual" link (at least in the broad sense of the word "contextual", even if not in the narrower D7 sense), so losing that convenience when you disable the module shouldn't be a surprise.
What about non-admins without "access contextual links" permission? I also suggested in that same comment that we remove that permission (similarly to how we don't have a "access local tasks" permission), but #1874664-111: Introduce toolbar level "Edit" mode that shows all contextual links → lists some reasons why it may be desirable to have roles without access to contextual links, at least the way we currently render them.
What about non-admins when contextual.module is disabled? This is an extension of the first point, but for people who don't have admin/content as an alternate. Perhaps we can change that listing page to a View that everyone has access to, but one that is filtered to only those items you can edit?

Or, maybe the responses to the above items are not good, and we need a fallback mechanism for important contextual links to automatically become primary tabs for users who can't access contextual links?

While the specific use case currently is the node's Edit link, it's possible that more items should move from tabs to contextual links, so per the issue title, let's evaluate with that broader perspective.

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🇺🇸United States effulgentsia

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Comment 13 days ago →
🇺🇸United States smustgrave
Thank you for creating this issue to improve Drupal.

We are working to decide if this task is still relevant to a currently supported version of Drupal. There hasn't been any discussion here for over 8 years which suggests that this has either been implemented or is no longer relevant. Your thoughts on this will allow a decision to be made.

Since we need more information to move forward with this issue, the status is now Postponed (maintainer needs more info). If we don't receive additional information to help with the issue, it may be closed after three months.

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