Add new permission for accessing help pages

Created on 22 March 2021, about 3 years ago
Updated 29 June 2023, 12 months ago

Problem/Motivation

Help pages are very useful for developers and site builders but not really to the end site users. Access to those pages is controlled by access administration pages permission. The problem is that this permission is used to grant access to many different pages by many different other modules inside and outside of Drupal core.

In many scenarios when building a website you would want to have a role with this permission for a ordinary website users who are either not developers nor they are website builders. They might not even know that website is built with Drupal. When they access the website and see the Help link in the "Management" menu and visit the page they are frequently scared.

Similar issues

  1. #20799: Create a new permission for Help pages - same intent. Created 19 Apr 2005! Marked as fixed but never landed because was supposed to be implemented in #299050: Help System - Master Patch .
  2. Proposed here change is mentioned as part of 🌱 Replace 'Use administration pages and help' Closed: duplicate but the scope of latter is way more broader.

Proposed resolution

Introduce "access help pages" permission to access /admin/help pages

Remaining tasks

  1. Patch
  2. Review
  3. Commit

User interface changes

None

API changes

None

Data model changes

None

Release notes snippet

New permission Use help pages added

Feature request
Status

Fixed

Version

11.0 🔥

Component
Help 

Last updated 11 days ago

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Created by

🇳🇿New Zealand RoSk0 Wellington

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