I’m trying to achieve something that I’ve yet to find a way to accomplish, and I’m not sure if I’m just missing the answer or if it doesn’t exist.
What I’d like is to adjust the permissions required for tag editing — as in, changing the actual names of existing tags — so that users with TL4 can have that capability.
As far as I can tell, that function is limited only to admins by default.
Does anyone know if there’s any way to make this happen?
Would you mind explaining a bit about your requirement? For instance, is this for frequent updates to the names of tags, or is it a one-time operation that you need a non-admin to accomplish?
The former. The site has a handful of TL4-level superusers, of sorts, and one thing we’ve discussed is how typical users often create overlapping tags with slightly different names (e.g. “chromeos” and “chrome-os” — or “customization,” “customizing,” and “customization-ideas”). And that, of course, leads to a bit of organizational chaos, where topics that should be related end up in separate tags instead.
It would be overkill and a needless security softening to turn all these TL4 users into full-fledged admins, but it would be very helpful for them to be able to assist with this more moderator-like task and have the ability to hop in and correct this sort of thing when it comes up and they see it — by either changing the name of an ill-created tag or perhaps just deleting the tag entirely (after reassigning the post to a more appropriate alternative) — as opposed to having to constantly ask an admin to take care of that for them.
I don’t know of a way to allow TL4 to edit tags. But I do know of a setting that would allow your staff rely more on TL4: min trust to create tag
If you set that to TL4, it means that group can decide amongst themselves which tag should be created; that doesn’t fix the problem of existing overlapping tags, but it may alleviate the issue moving forward.
Ah — interesting. We can certainly make that work and then just make a point to create new tags proactively as needed so they’re available for everyone else to use.