[support] Re-ordering roles on access control page?

Jim Li jimmydami at gmail.com
Tue Nov 20 21:14:34 UTC 2007


Nice! Any docs or pointers on how it's done? Some sort of scrollable
table jquery plug-in?

On Nov 19, 2007 10:25 PM, Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com> wrote:
> You'll be happy to know that Drupal 6 will do that for you. :-)  (Except in
> IE, where it's just too hard to work around the complete
> lack-of-functionality that is IE.)
>
>
> On Monday 19 November 2007, Michelle Cox wrote:
> > What I do is copy the names of the roles into notepad2, size it to cover
> > the roles on the page, and set it to stay on top. That provides a static
> > header. Hacky, but it works. :)
> >
> > Michelle
> >
> > On 11/19/2007 3:13:32 PM, Roy Smith (roy at panix.com) wrote:
> > > I know this is a slightly trivial thing, but is there any way to re-order
> > > the columns in the access control page (admin/user/access)?  They come
> > > out
> > > in order  "administrator", "anonymous", "authenticated" (are they just
> > > alphabetized?).  This makes it a little confusing, since they are not
> > > sorted in order of most to least privileged.
> > >
> > > The problem is compounded because the column heads are only shown at the
> > > top of the page.  When it scrolls off the top of the visible area, you're
> > > left looking at a bunch of checkboxes with no visible labels and no
> > > logical ordering.  This is kind of confusing :-)
> > >
> > > At some point, I intend to add a 4th role, "editor", which will have
> > > privileges less than administrator but more than authenticated user.
> > >
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