Non Owners Can Not Change Content-Type Display Options

[kenzik]

Not sure if this is intended, if so, consider this a super low-priority feature request...

A non-owner can not turn fields on/off in the content type entries listing.

I think it's valuable to have the ability for non-owners to do this, but I also understand why it's locked down, due to it effecting all users' views.

Maybe determine an easy way to add that to the permission system for groups?

A good use case occurred when I was demonstrating Webhook. They were logged into the CMS with Editor perms, and got excited when they saw they could add/remove display fields from the listings -- until they couldn't (I then gave them owner privs.) The thought was that it would be valuable in combination with search to do some quick "at a glance" audits (for SEO, unpublished items, etc.)

Considering the limited width for item listings, I thought it was a decent enough idea.

[snide]

It's not on purpose. Since this is a smaller, non-critical bug we might wait till after the holidays.

[kenzik]

Thanks. No rush on this side. I'm glad to hear it wasn't intentional.

[gpbmike]

Notes from discussion today.

Problem: Display fields are saved to the content-type which is only writable by owners.

Solution: Use display fields on content-type as the default. Override as user level. Save to settings/userprefs/[username]/contentTypes/[contentTypeName]/.

New resulting problem: No UI for setting default display fields.