This has been brought up before here and there but I thought I would throw it out here just to find out (as a user I don't appear to be able to do a poll) how people feel on the subject?
For a small Elgg community where the admin does everything you only require two user levels, Admin and User.
Where you have a larger community or if someone sets up Elgg for a business or club etc where you need some management or moderation but don't want a person going in and changing settings, activating or deactivating plugins it's not an option.
What do people think of a third role where certain admin like features can be enabled? Group Tools I believe has this where the group owner can be changed and there is the group kick.
Some examples would be:
Users: Add, Edit, Delete
Content: Edit, Delete
Other ideas or suggestions?
I am not a developer or coder in any stretch of the imagination, don't think for a minute this is something I am going to create. I only posted this so those that are can decide if a manager role would be worth building into Elgg or a plugin.
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You must log in to post replies.Each Elgg site has their own individual needs, so a single hard-coded manager role is not something we would want to add into the Elgg core.
There has however been discussion about adding a capabilities API: https://github.com/Elgg/Elgg/issues/4888. Something like that would make it easier to create a proper roles system, that would allow each site to freely add new roles and define capabilities for them.
Naturally it will require a lot of work before we can add it. Custom plugin is currently the best option for those who are in a hurry.
I agree Dan, that would be a nice feature indeed!