User administration

nuttynovas · Post by **nuttynovas** » Tue Jan 30, 2007 11:17 pm

When I'm administrating a User there is no way to distinguish which user I'm administrating if i go from page to page of their user administration section?

I have quite often forgot who I'm editing and a simple display of there username instead of 'USER' would be most helpful i think

I have done a before and after to make it more simple to understand.

iyeru42 · Post by **iyeru42** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:33 am

This is exactly why the username is displayed first on the admin form for users.

Highway of Life · Post by **Highway of Life** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:46 am

That was a gripe of mine as well... I just added a bit of code in the ACP to make it easier on our Admins to see who they were editing.

Acyd Burn · Post by **Acyd Burn** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:24 am

Add it to the bug tracker.

Nicholas the Italian · Wed Jan 31, 2007 9:58 am

Not really related, but... do you ever happen to edit a post instead of quoting it, or viceversa?
It's rather annoying when you come up deleting the original message because you thought you were editing it...

Any idea for making it safer/clearer that you're editing, not quoting? I was thinking about a different color for the text area, or a confirmation when you edit someone else's posts...

karlsemple · Post by **karlsemple** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:43 am

Nicholas the Italian wrote: Not really related, but... do you ever happen to edit a post instead of quoting it, or viceversa?
It's rather annoying when you come up deleting the original message because you thought you were editing it...
Any idea for making it safer/clearer that you're editing, not quoting? I was thinking about a different color for the text area, or a confirmation when you edit someone else's posts...

I am always doing that with phpBB2 and phpBB3, editing posts I want to quote

Rotsblok · Post by **Rotsblok** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 10:56 am

on my phpBB2 forum i even deleted a whole topic since i was conviced that the x was for the locking

the funny thing was i just edited a post in that topic. how a wast of time

Nicholas the Italian · Wed Jan 31, 2007 11:09 am

Rotsblok wrote: on my phpBB2 forum i even deleted a whole topic since i was conviced that the x was for the locking

Well, doesn't it ask for confirmation then...

Anyway, I'd almost call this a "security issue" (users' data involved)... bug tracker?
But I'd like to have some serious&easy solution to suggest.

PS: i was quoting myself instead of editing right now...

Klors · Post by **Klors** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 12:55 pm

You could change the edit button for your style so that it was more obvious if you wish. Personally I usually realise and catch myself before I hit submit.

marosell · Post by **marosell** » Wed Jan 31, 2007 2:48 pm

there probably should be a edit-post confirmation. put it on the bug tracker, it can't hurt. if the team says no, then they say no. no biggie

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