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Improve UX of page permissions #3085

@GuySartorelli

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@GuySartorelli

In the permissions tab when viewing a member, the following permissions are related to pages:

  • Access to "Pages" section (gives CRUD permissions to pages, plus access to the admin section)
  • View any page (overrides 'only these members' and 'only these users' view permissions)
  • Edit any page (overrides 'only these members' and 'only these users' edit permissions)
  • (others that aren't immediately relevant)

It's not uncommon to see this and think that the Access to "Pages" section permission only lets you click on the section, but doesn't give any direct permission to view or edit pages. You might then give a group that permission along with View any page expecting those users to have view-only access - but that's not what happens.

If you hover over the permissions there is some explanation of what they do, but that interaction isn't immediately obivous.

The following solutions might help:

  1. Add a❓icon next to the permission, so users think to hover over it for more details
  2. Rename some of the permissions so it's more immediately obvious what they do
  3. Rework the permissions so that they work the way it seems they intuitively should.

Option 3 would be a breaking change and would require rethinking how we do Access to <x> section permissions in general, so I recommend we just do both 1 and 2 instead.

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