Expand control of permissions for File/Image Manager
Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 10:51 am
I suggested this on the CMSMS page on UserVoice and thought some of you may be interested in discussing this and perhaps commenting/voting for the idea on UserVoice. Here is my suggestion:
The File/Image manager permissions are currently very limited. You can either allow or disallow access per group and that's it. My suggestion is to expand permission control to include permissions related to deleting and overwriting images/files. Currently, you can set permissions for users to be able to edit pages but not delete them, so why not this?
And before you argue that they can just overwrite pages, thus an overwrite protection is not needed for the file/image manager, keep in mind that there is an Archiver module which tracks changes made to pages and preserves them in the database. So you DO have control whether pages are overwritten or not, as you can simply restore a page to a previous version.
This is not possible with the File/Image Manager so we definitely need to be able to manage overwrite permissions as well as delete permissions. Thanks for reading.
The File/Image manager permissions are currently very limited. You can either allow or disallow access per group and that's it. My suggestion is to expand permission control to include permissions related to deleting and overwriting images/files. Currently, you can set permissions for users to be able to edit pages but not delete them, so why not this?
And before you argue that they can just overwrite pages, thus an overwrite protection is not needed for the file/image manager, keep in mind that there is an Archiver module which tracks changes made to pages and preserves them in the database. So you DO have control whether pages are overwritten or not, as you can simply restore a page to a previous version.
This is not possible with the File/Image Manager so we definitely need to be able to manage overwrite permissions as well as delete permissions. Thanks for reading.