| Attribute | Average |
|---|---|
| Features | 5 / 5 |
| Reliability | 5 / 5 |
| Ease Of Use | 4 / 5 |
| Documentation | 4 / 5 |
| Vote Count | 1 |
Use 1.4 version. Looking for co-maintainer. See message in issue queue. If you have a ton of users and a ton of roles on your site this module aims to eliminate errors in assigning roles and simply make it easier to keep track of who should be able to do what. The site admin - defines account types assigns... [More...]
| Maintainer: | rconstantine |
| Links: | |
| Categories: | Administration, User access and authentication, User management |
| Version | Date | Files | Release notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5.x-1.4 | 2007-Nov-28 | Download | Recommended |
| 5.x-1.x-dev | 2007-Nov-29 | Download | Development |
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This module confused me when I read the documentation and the description. Once I actually installed it, things fell into place.
This is a group creation module. This is actually what I thought it was, but couldn't tell by reading it. More or less you create a group, then assign roles to that group. Following that you can assign a user to a group, rather than assigning them individual roles (Which can lead to mistakes). Say for example you want a role of moderators, who have say 10 roles on your site. You can then assign 10 roles to a group called moderators, then assign the users you want to that group.
That is great alone, but you can also have a group that is made for just new users signing up, giving them certain abilities. You can also go back and assign all older users the abilities with just one click and can quickly update the group, rather than individual roles. Editing individual users is nice too, you can do it from their the edit section of their user page.
I wish that this module was explained better for newbies. I look at it like the way they used to slam me in English class in school. You never put the word in the definition. The name of the module is Account Type, so you shouldn't be calling everything account type over and over again. It becomes confusing. I mean most of us know a term like group for example, we use this all the time with various software or scripts, like FTP servers for example. I don't know, I just found it to be a little confusing.
With that said, I think it does things well and isn't that hard to put into use. I actually think this should be core since it controls roles very well. You may still want to give individual roles, which you can do, but being able to assign users to a group would be a lot easier in my opinion.
"The issues raised in shl's review have been addressed in versions 1.7 and above. I can't add this comment..."
"This module will make the Upload Files Form beautiful. It doesn't work with filefield, just the upload..."
"despite a nice interface, the permissions are not copied but Duplicate Role works - http://drupal.org/project/duplicate_role "
