Separate permissions for UI and auto-reuse of history
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<p>I have a use case where the history of the merge actions is needed, but the auto-reuse of rules saved in history causes problems.</p>
<p>To better understand my motivation, I'll provide below an example:<br>
I have a 2 level taxonomy vocabulary, with a preset list of terms by site admins, but users can suggest new terms.<br>
1. At start we have a term called "ExistingTerm" on the first level of the vocabulary with TID 1234.<br>
2. Then some user suggests "UserSuggestedTerm" as a another first level term.<br>
3. Admins moderate the vocabulary and decide to merge "UserSuggestedTerm" into "ExistingTerm".<br>
4. The module will record in the history this merge for string "UserSuggestedTerm" into term ID 1234.<br>
5. some other user suggests the same "UserSuggestedTerm" later on for level 1, but on hook_term_presave, the term gets altered by the module with a name and TID 1234, thus no new term gets created (but 1234 will be updated)<br>
all good so far<br>
6. some other user, later down the line, suggest "UserSuggestedTerm" again, but this time as a child term for "ExistingTerm", so on the second level.<br>
things go crazy at this stage<br>
before the new term would get saved it overwrites it's name with "ExistingTerm" and sets the TID of 1234 for it<br>
but we already have a parent TID 1234 set on the term, since the user suggested it as a second level term under "ExistingTerm"<br>
and then instead of a term insert a term update is interpreted by the core taxonomy module<br>
this way, term "ExistingTerm" ends up being and it's own parent and disappears form the UI completely</p>
<p>It would be really nice, if these two features could be controlled separately as permissions maybe.<br>
One could define the roles who can access the history of merge actions, but also separately define who's actions can be overwritten automatically and who's don't.</p>
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<pre><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"><?php<br></span><span style="color: #FF8000">/**<br> * Implements hook_permission().<br> */<br></span><span style="color: #007700">function </span><span style="color: #0000BB">term_merge_manager_permission</span><span style="color: #007700">() {<br> return array(<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'manage term merge actions' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> array(<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'title' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">t</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Manage Term Merge Actions'</span><span style="color: #007700">),<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'description' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">t</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Access Term Merge Actions GUI.'</span><span style="color: #007700">),<br> ),<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'execute term merge actions' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> array(<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'title' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">t</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Execute Term Merge Actions'</span><span style="color: #007700">),<br> </span><span style="color: #DD0000">'description' </span><span style="color: #007700">=> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">t</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'Execute Term Merge Actions from history.'</span><span style="color: #007700">),<br> ),<br> );<br>}<br><br></span><span style="color: #FF8000">/**<br> * Implements hook_taxonomy_term_presave().<br> */<br></span><span style="color: #007700">function </span><span style="color: #0000BB">term_merge_manager_taxonomy_term_presave</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$term</span><span style="color: #007700">) {<br> if (</span><span style="color: #0000BB">user_access</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'execute term merge actions'</span><span style="color: #007700">)) {<br> </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Check if name has a rule.<br> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$merge </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">term_merge_manager_get_merge_action_item</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$term</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">vid</span><span style="color: #007700">, </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$term</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">name</span><span style="color: #007700">);<br><br> if (!empty(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$merge</span><span style="color: #007700">)) {<br> </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Get action.<br> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$action </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">term_merge_manager_get_merge_action_by_tmmid</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$merge</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'tmmid'</span><span style="color: #007700">]);<br><br> if (!empty(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$action</span><span style="color: #007700">)) {<br> </span><span style="color: #FF8000">// Apply term merge rule.<br> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$actionterm </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">taxonomy_term_load</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$action</span><span style="color: #007700">[</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'tid'</span><span style="color: #007700">]);<br><br> if (!empty(</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$actionterm</span><span style="color: #007700">)) {<br> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$term</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">name </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$actionterm</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">name</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br> </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$term</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">tid </span><span style="color: #007700">= </span><span style="color: #0000BB">$actionterm</span><span style="color: #007700">-></span><span style="color: #0000BB">tid</span><span style="color: #007700">;<br> }<br> }<br> }<br> }<br>}<br></span><span style="color: #0000BB">?></span></span></pre></div>
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