Featured Drupal Module - WYSIWYCA with Menu per Role

The Menu per Role module allows you to restrict access to menu items based on roles.

Essentially, this handy little module adds a new fieldset to each menu item, called “Restrict access permission”, and allows you to specify the user roles that should be able to see this menu item.

What this allows you to do, is to have menu items (e.g., “My Groups” and “My Cases”) that are visible only to, say, authenticated users. There’s no point in exposing these menu items to anonymous users, especially since they’re going to get an “access denied” page once they get there anyway!

I call this “What You See Is What You Can Access” (WYSIWYCA)

It’s a very simple concept, but I’ve found this module to be absolutely essential in all of the Drupal-based sites that we build…