ACP: show current user

[Chris]

I didn't realize I was logged in as cddude229 and not admin when viewing the ACP... quite confusing when I was trying to find my custom pages. Can you add a "Logged in as Chris" message somewhere? It'd help alleviate the headache.

Adding an option to logout from the ACP could be useful as well.

[Ryan Roos]

We will discuss this. You should generally know who you are logged in as. But I can see where the confusion can occur. Thank you.

[Chris]

Well, there's no option like on the main forum to switch between accounts, so when I go directly to the ACP, this issue occurs. (I do go straight to the ACP a lot.)

[Ryan Roos]

Nov 5, 2012 12:44:33 GMT -8 Chris said:

Well, there's no option like on the main forum to switch between accounts, so when I go directly to the ACP, this issue occurs. (I do go straight to the ACP a lot.)

I think we're thinking the same thing. You can't switch accounts in the admin area. Obviously because there would be permission issues in too many cases. As such you are always on the forum first where your name is displayed. Most people most of the time wont even have multiple accounts, or multiple admin accounts. And if they do they should most likely know which account they're using. It says in the upper right of the forum. If they click to the admin area then they enter that area where switching accounts becomes null again.

Like I said we'll discuss it. I already added it to our list of things to talk about.

[Chris]

Nov 5, 2012 13:09:22 GMT -8 Ryan Roos said:

Nov 5, 2012 12:44:33 GMT -8 Chris said:

Well, there's no option like on the main forum to switch between accounts, so when I go directly to the ACP, this issue occurs. (I do go straight to the ACP a lot.)

I think we're thinking the same thing. You can't switch accounts in the admin area. Obviously because there would be permission issues in too many cases. As such you are always on the forum first where your name is displayed. Most people most of the time wont even have multiple accounts, or multiple admin accounts. And if they do they should most likely know which account they're using. It says in the upper right of the forum. If they click to the admin area then they enter that area where switching accounts becomes null again.

Like I said we'll discuss it. I already added it to our list of things to talk about.

Fair enough. Thanks.

If it gets denied, I'll likely just write a GM script to inject the links for me.