Way to find which roles are attached to one permission?

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Is there an easy way to see which roles include one particular permission? The use case is this:

A member finds that they are able to post on a blog. The user is assigned to several roles. In order to ascertain which role is giving them permission to "create a post", I need to head to Admin/Members to see which roles the user is assigned to. Then, I need to head to the group that the blog is in, go to "manage permissions", and go through each and every role that the user is assigned to to track down which role(s) have that "create a blog" checked.

Is that correct? Or is there an easier way to do this?

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  • That's how I would do it. When we were getting ready to launch and setting permissions up, we recorded the different roles/groups/permissions in a series of spreadsheets to be able to account for situations like you describe. Admittedly, I have not kept these super up-to-date (Sorry   Grimacing!) but it could be something to consider for your tracking. 

    I'm not sure if v12 has any improvements in this area though since there are changes to how Roles/Permissions are handled, but it seems like there are a lot of improvements there. 

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  • That's how I would do it. When we were getting ready to launch and setting permissions up, we recorded the different roles/groups/permissions in a series of spreadsheets to be able to account for situations like you describe. Admittedly, I have not kept these super up-to-date (Sorry   Grimacing!) but it could be something to consider for your tracking. 

    I'm not sure if v12 has any improvements in this area though since there are changes to how Roles/Permissions are handled, but it seems like there are a lot of improvements there. 

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