[Typo3-dev] More advanced permissions handling?

[Stig N. Færch]

These were the other suggestions I had:

/Stig

>> Yes, it will be far to complicated to implement and one should keep a
>> permission system simple.
>
> Okay, it might be too complex to do this.
> But then I have a couple of ideas which might be easier to implement?
> I would like to hear...:
> ...if you think it's a good idea?
> ...if you think it would contradict some basic designrules of Typo3?
> ...how hard it would be to implement?
> ...if you might implement it sometime?
> ...if not, do you think it would be possible to implement through an
> extension?
>
> The first idea:
> The idea is that when you are logged in, you will be able to choose
> among different user-roles which corresponds to be-usergroups you
> were assigned.

Comment: it's like switching off those usergroups which are marked as 
user-roles AND not selected.

> For example - you might want to edit news. Then you select the
> news-role and only the be-usergroup for news-editing kicks in.
>
> Or you might want to edit the calendar then you select calendar-role
> and only the be-usergroup for calendar-editing kicks in.
>
> To select a user-role, you could have a dropdown-list in the BE with
> the different user-roles you can switch through, one of which is
> default.
>
>
> Or another idea:
> Similar to the above idea.
> You can mark be-users as being user-roles.
> Then these user-roles could be assigned to be-users,
> who then can switch between these in the BE from a dropdown-list.
>
> The problem might be that it's not the be-user who sets it's mark when
> editing something but the user-role instead. But that might also be
> solvable.
>
> /Stig