Feature Suggestion/Enhancement: Mass permissions per group
This feature would allow admins to quickly and easily make multiple changes to one usergroup's permissions without having to go into each forum and edit them there.
Expected functionality
Ideally this would be an option under the "Users & Groups" heading then the "Groups" section of the sidebar. Since right now in 1.6 and 1.8 clicking "Groups" gives a list of the groups on the forum. From here the option to edit group permissions or clear set permissions (with a confirmation warning) would be added under the "Options" beside each group (in the drop down menu that appears when clicked).
After edit is selected the system would then list all the forums (according to their display order) and then beside them each permission (ex- start topic, delete topic, edit topic, etc...) would be a checkbox.
Ideally it would look similar to this. (Though it may be necessary to use multiple tabs to keep things less cluttered since MyBB has more than 4 permissions. So if tabs are needed it'd have one for: viewing, editing/rating, moderating and misc. Misc would include polls and searching plus whatever other options added for 2.0.)
This way that admin could easily set multiple forums permissions in a hurry. It could also be used to check at a glance what permissions a usergroup had for several forums.
(It would also be nice so that users could check at a glance what the default inheritances were. So this way they could create a category and click here and it'd show the category's permissions too.)
Any additional notes
Nothing further I can think of.
This feature would allow admins to quickly and easily make multiple changes to one usergroup's permissions without having to go into each forum and edit them there.
Expected functionality
Ideally this would be an option under the "Users & Groups" heading then the "Groups" section of the sidebar. Since right now in 1.6 and 1.8 clicking "Groups" gives a list of the groups on the forum. From here the option to edit group permissions or clear set permissions (with a confirmation warning) would be added under the "Options" beside each group (in the drop down menu that appears when clicked).
After edit is selected the system would then list all the forums (according to their display order) and then beside them each permission (ex- start topic, delete topic, edit topic, etc...) would be a checkbox.
Ideally it would look similar to this. (Though it may be necessary to use multiple tabs to keep things less cluttered since MyBB has more than 4 permissions. So if tabs are needed it'd have one for: viewing, editing/rating, moderating and misc. Misc would include polls and searching plus whatever other options added for 2.0.)
This way that admin could easily set multiple forums permissions in a hurry. It could also be used to check at a glance what permissions a usergroup had for several forums.
(It would also be nice so that users could check at a glance what the default inheritances were. So this way they could create a category and click here and it'd show the category's permissions too.)
Any additional notes
Nothing further I can think of.
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