How to grant permissions for some role to execute custom Rules Components?

Question

I created a view (table) and i asociated views bulk operations. I created 4 rules components. I have permissions only for user/1 (admin). Another user role (eg. editor) can't see these options. "editor" user can see only "DELETE ITEM" rule components.

In permissions I have only the default actions (components); I created 4 new Rules Components, and these aren't displayed in Admin > People > Permissions.

Is there another method (trick) to give permissions for another role for custom Rules Components? Am I missing something?

Answer 1

When you edit the configuration of a custom Rules Component, within its Settings, there is an option with label Configure access for using this component with a permission (disabed by default). And with some additional explanation below it like so:

By default, the action for using this component may be only used by users that have access to configure the component. If checked, access is determined by a permission instead.

If you enable this option (= add a checkmark), it'll display a table that looks similar to this one (whereas in this sample I only had a single custom role defined, i.e. "editor", and the label of my Rules Component is "ABC"):

!PERMISSION              !ANONYMOUS USER!AUTHENTICATED USER!ADMINISTRATOR!EDITOR!
!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
!Use Rules component ABC !      O       !         O        !       O     !   O  !
!--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If you'd check (e.g) the checkbox below "Editor", then a user with role Editor would be allowed to execute the Rules Component ABC. And such user will also see it in the list of possible (allowed!) bulk operations in a VBO view (users without the required role will not be able to select it in such VBO view).

PS: user user/1 is always considered as an exception to anything about permissions (so never consider that user as a reliable testcase for anything about permissions).

Answer 2

If you've enabled "Action permissions" check the role has permission to "Execute [action]" in Admin > People > Permissions