contao/test — Issue #690: Unite frontend and backend users (und user groups)
Author: importer
Created: 2011-11-28 17:15:57+00:00
State: open
Labels: Feature, framework

With more than 700 people (students) being supposed to have an account on my school's website, it is really annoying to create both, a frontend and a backend one, for each of them. Of course, there won't be 700 people directly involved in the making of the website, so, at first, they'll all have only frontend access. Though, potentially everyone could be granted access to the backend and I do not want to copy & paste the data from the respective frontend account to the new backend account every time. I also find it annoying that updating user data would mean that it always has to be updated for both accounts.
That is why I think frontend and backend users (and thus also user groups) should be united. At the moment, it'd be simply impossible to have 700 student accounts running on TYPOlight with each of them having different rights in the frontend and the backend.

Separation between frontend and backend certainly makes sense when thinking of handling all backend users and being able to know at once who was granted backend rights and who wasn't. Though, wouldn't it be easier to achieve that by simply providing an option "Backend access" in each user's database record? There could be another option to display just the users with backend permissions when viewing all users.

If I am wrong at some point, I'd be happy to be pointed in the right direction.

--- _Originally created by codethief on May 1st, 2009, at 02:01pm (ID 690)_