FPA - Fast Permissions Access for Drupal

May 22, 2012 | Drupal Tutorials | Written by Ed Andrea

As your Drupal site grows, so does your permissions page. Finding the permissions you need to change often requires a lot of clicking and scrolling.

Fast Permissions Access (FPA) is a simple Drupal module that makes managing permissions much easier. FPA puts a neat little search box on the permissions page so you can find exactly what you're looking for.

Step 1: Install the FPA module

Download, install and enable the FPA module from: http://drupal.org/project/fpa
FPA works perfectly out of the box, but if you have the CTools module you can also show the results in a pop-up window.

Step 2: Access the module controls

On your admin bar click People.
Choose the Permissions tab.
You will see a new Filter installed on your permissions page.

Step 3: Sort by roles

Select a role from the Roles selector. Holding CTRL while you click you will be allow you to make multiple selections.
The role or roles you choose will be reflected in the columns.
You can also look at the permissions for an individual module or content type.

Step 4: Search for a permissions associated with a module or content type

To search for the permissions dealing with a specific module or content type, type into the Filter box.

Step 5: Do a cross search for a module and a role

Enter @modulename in the filter field.
Choose one or more roles from the Roles box.

Step 6: Keyword search example

Search by "user"
Only pulls up entries with "user" in the title.

Search by @user returns everything in the user section.

Adding a word in front of the @ refines the search further to descriptions that have both words.

Comments

#1 Corey Aufang 2013-04-25 17:22

Module name is actually Fast Permissions Administration, in case there was any confusion.

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