Allow username change for administrators in the ucp if its disabled.

[Dragosvr92]

If you set Allow username changes: to No, it wont allow anyone to change their username from the UCP.
I think an administrator or founder should be allowed to change it from the UCP, regardless of the option that disables username changing.
And not only this... A founder/admin should have access to do anything possible, even if the option is disallowed globally.

Opinions?

[Pony99CA]

If you're an Admin (with appropriate Admin permissions), just go into the ACP and do it. I suppose since that's allowed anyway, you could allow it in the UCP (if they had those same Admin permissions), but it's not something I'd worry much about.

If you want to write a Pull Request, cool; otherwise I'd prefer the developers focussing on more pressing issues.

Steve

[Dragosvr92]

Yes, i know it can be done from the acp directly. If the admin has access to do this for himself and anybody else, from the acp. Then he should have access to do it from the ucp also, for themselves. Not much of a serious thing. I am not bugged by it. Its just something i noticed on my board, as i changed my username, and wanted to point it out.

[EXreaction]

I do not think this should just be done for people with admin permission to alter user profiles, it could cause confusion if the setting is actually disabled or not working properly if it shows up in the UCP for administrators and it's supposed to be disabled.

Rather than that I think this could be done as a permission setting rather than a global yes/no, so groups or users could be given permission to change their username (via the UCP).

[Pony99CA]

Rather than that I think this could be done as a permission setting rather than a global yes/no, so groups or users could be given permission to change their username (via the UCP).

Actually, it already is: Can change username on the Profile tab of the User permissions page.

Now I wonder if the global permission overrides that specific permission. (I just checked -- it does.) But the OP could probably set the global option to allow name changes and just give people in the Admin groups permission to change their names (set Registered Users to No, Admins to Yes).

Should we suggest getting rid of the global option?

Steve

[imkingdavid]

I would be all for removing the global option. I don't see the purpose in having global on/off as well as a permission setting for this.
But I do agree that we should not enable editing in the UCP for admins for the reasons stated above.

[EXreaction]

Global options like this have their pros and cons. It's harder to disable it board wide if it's currently enabled (have to set all the permissions), but there are then two places that control the feature (can lead to confusion).

The other problem is that the permission system is generally confusing for users, so having to change that setting through permissions only may cause problems as well for users.

I'm not sure there is a good solution to these problems with the constraints in the design of the current ACP, optimally there would be a way to set single settings such as this via permissions for a set of groups or users rather than have to edit the settings for those groups/users (or roles) and then find the single permission, and then set it.

[imkingdavid]

I'm not sure there is a good solution to these problems with the constraints in the design of the current ACP, optimally there would be a way to set single settings such as this via permissions for a set of groups or users rather than have to edit the settings for those groups/users (or roles) and then find the single permission, and then set it.

I would support looking into a way to set specific permissions for all groups/users in one click. I'm not sure the best place to put it, but the way I see it would be a page that looks identical to the current permission setting page with the addition of a check box next to the settings so you can select the permissions you want to apply globally.

[Pony99CA]

Global options like this have their pros and cons. It's harder to disable it board wide if it's currently enabled (have to set all the permissions), but there are then two places that control the feature (can lead to confusion).

In the case, the solution seems trivially easy. To turn the ability off, set the permission to NEVER for Registered Users; to turn it on, set the permission to YES for Registered Users.

Guests and Bots can't get to the UCP anyway, so you don't need to set it for them.

Steve

[EXreaction]

Yes, easy for someone familiar with using the fine-grained controls of the permissions system.