Inconsistency in permission rules - configure options only

[chmst]

Pull Request for Issue # .

Summary of Changes

"Configure Options Only" makes me think .. why only?

Change the String to "Configure Options"

[ChristineWk]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 125143e

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[brianteeman]

Not at my pc but please check template manager. Iirc this string comes from there where you could have access to options but not other restricted items. Unlike all other components

[chmst]

The string is used in permissions of the template manager. But still correct when the "only" is removed.

If core.options has another meaning in template management than in other components, we better should define an specified action.

[brianteeman]

Now that I am at my pc I can see that what was originally just a template manager permission is now everywhere and that the problem is not so much the word "only" but that there is a column missing in the users permissions view. "Configure ACL and Options"

[brianteeman]

Looking at the issue I just created #38830 I can see that the problem here arises from your pr #37807 which moved core.admin (Configure ACL and Options) out of the columns but did not also move core.options (Configure ACL Only)

In summary this is not the correct fix and it should be fixed together with #38830

[chmst]

Will check after my holidays. The problem occurs if no permissions are found on level >= 4.

[chmst]

Looking at the issue I just created #38830 I can see that the problem here arises from your pr #37807 which moved core.admin (Configure ACL and Options) out of the columns but did not also move core.options (Configure ACL Only)

In summary this is not the correct fix and it should be fixed together with #38830

#38830 is resolved with #38960. PR #37807 did not import a bug but made an old error visible.
In summary this issue has nothing to do with the above PRs.

[brianteeman]

Sorry for mistaking that error.

While I agree that in the debug user permissions view it might not be needed removing it from the permissions table does change its meaning.

[chmst]

I don't insist in changing the label, but I see a logical error in the permission rules. As a user and only from labels I think:

Configure everything | Configure options only | result

     yes         |       yes               |   configure everything but for what do we need  options only?
     yes         |       no                |   configure eeryting but don't configure options only (!)
     no          |       yes               |   configure nothing but configure options only (!)
     no          |       no                |   configure nothing but for what do we need  options only?

The follwing would be correct but must be checkd in the whole core

Configure ACL | Configure options       | result
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         yes  |       yes               | configure everything
         yes  |       no                | configure ACL only 
         no   |       yes               | configure options only
         no   |       no                | configure nothing

[brianteeman]

There isn't a configure acl only option

(maybe there should be)

[chmst]

This is what I wanted to demonstrate. Configure ACL and Configure Options would be better. But this is a bigger task and surely not for J4.

[brianteeman]

Agreed.

Originally the "configure options only" was a hack for joomla.com in com_templates when it was at siteground iirc

[Quy]

I have tested this item ✅ successfully on 125143e

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[Quy]

RTC

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[roland-d]

Thank you

[tecpromotion]

The change was unfortunately not made consistently in the API.

joomla-cms/api/language/en-GB/joomla.ini

Line 167 in 4c91879

JACTION_OPTIONS="Configure Options Only"

PR #39682 will fix this.