Is it presently possible, within v11 core, to display which role(s) are currently in effect for a user on a page by page basis? For example, have the role listed somewhere on the page at load.
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Active Roles
Active Roles
Re: Active Roles
Hi John
It is possible to check permissions for an activity and select the user. Does this provide the information you were wanting?
Re: Active Roles
I was thinking more of a display of which role is the one with precedence on any page for the current user. Display the role either through a hot key combo or debug message. If it isn't already available, then it would or could help with determining which role is or could be overriding preferred actions on a page.
Re: Active Roles
Hi John
I can't think of a way to show which capability has precedence when a user has more than one role.
The precedence is calculated using numeric values assigned to each capabilty (inherit = 0, allow = 1, prevent = -1, prohibit = -1000) and multiplying by the context level - the lower context has higher value than lower. The capability with the highest value wins.
If there are problems with the precedence then overriding or assigning to a lower context should help the precedence of the capability.
Try and keep the assigning of multiple roles and overrides to a minimum as they are difficult to sort out .maybe consider creating a user with the separate admin role that people can login to rather than having users with multiple roles. Users who have a learner and an admin role in the same course will be able to change their own grades.
regards