Re: Replacing local roles on users with local roles on groups

Dylan Jay <djay@...> writes:

> I think this is sounding good. I think making the groups appear
> as regular groups might be a good thing. A couple of times I've
> considered implementing a plugin that makes groups from local
> roles so that you can reuse a set of users who are say editors
> of news in other places such as content roles or other sharing 
> tabs. Maybe the ui could be changed to give the group a
> symbolic name instead if this being a behind the scenes 
> change? This could also decentralise group management so 
> you don't need to be a site admin to do it. 

David Glick also asked for a similar functionality, but I think
it would be hell to implement. So, if I want to create a local
role group in Folder A, what do I call it? Does the user name
it symbolically? If someone else then wants to re-use that group
how can they do it? Will they agree that the name fits the local
roles they want to add in Folder B? What if they want to remove
a user from that group, but that then changes the rights on 
Folder A?

I think Thomas' product allowing the local creation of regular
Plone groups would be a better fit.

I've been playing with my idea today, and the code is at:

https://github.com/netsight/collective.localrolesbygroups

So far you can add a local role to a user on a folder and it will
transparently behind the scenes add the user to a group and
add the local role to the group. When you view the sharing tab
it then expands the groups so it still looks like individual users.
TODO: write the logic to remove roles from users and also
determine if the operation is a no-op.

-Matt


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