Extend manual forms permission assignment with a more flexible permission system

[mnlmaier]

Currently, Formie permissions are managed entirely by hand. Every time a new form is added, an admin has to go in and update permission groups or individual user assignments. That works technically, but it's not a great experience for our clients in practice.

This is understandable from a technical perspective, but proves to be not really ideal for our clients.

What we'd like to achieve:

• Editors should only see and manage forms they created, plus the corresponding submissions (unclear whether Formie stores the creating user against a form record at all)
• It should be possible to assign user groups to a form, so all group members automatically get access to it

Is this something which can be implemented, has already been implemented or can easily be extended ourselves without the risk of breaking again in the next major update?

Thanks in advance!

[engram-design]

Yeah the permissions system does need an overhaul, and it's on our todo list.

Having said that, whenever a user creates a new form, they are given full permissions on that form automatically. But if you're talking about say, you have a "clients" user group, then no Formie won't add access to that entire group automatically, because it doesn't want to assume that's what you want. But indeed, that should be configurable.

This is also going to tie into Form Groups which will allow for this behaviour a bit better as well.