Manager Editable Interface Help Text

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TravisCarden's picture

Some of my customers have requested the ability to edit help text on node fields. Of course by default, giving them that ability means giving them the ability to add and edit fields themselves, which isn't something non-developers should always have. Before we dive into a solution for ourselves, I thought I'd see if anyone else has similar needs. Then we can put what we learn into writing a module or even submitting patches to core, as the case requires. So what are your thoughts? Do you have a need for web managers and content editors to edit the help text in the CMS interface? What solutions have you tried? What does the community need? Thanks for your input!

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The problem with Drupal 7

sinasalek's picture

The problem with Drupal 7 fields UI and most of core module is the lack of details permissions. Usually there is only one administration permission. Either you can modify all settings of that module or nothing.

There are several contributed modules that address this problem. For example Block Access module does a really good job and gives total control over block admin. There is also a new field-ui-permissions module, and even a core issue related to what you need.

In one of my projects i needed to give access to site admin to add new content types himself but for that i needed to give him full access which wasn't a good idea since he wasn't a developer. What i needed back then was the ability to lock certain fields and content types to prevent him from accidentally change or delete them
I found a partial solution for that http://drupal.org/project/field_lock
field_lock could be a simple delete permission on field-ui-permissions

I think if you want to spend time on this issue it's better if you contact field-ui-permissions developer and join forces.

Related Module: Custom Help Text

TravisCarden's picture

Note for posterity: The Custom Help Text module doesn't do exactly what we're talking about here, but it's at least working in the same problem space.

Another option

pameeela's picture

This is a new module that does exactly this: https://www.drupal.org/project/better_field_descriptions

I know this is very late but thought I'd update in case anyone was still looking.

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