Per thread roles

[nvahalik]

Currently, each Participant within a Thread has individual permissions that can be assigned to them. Unless they have admin assigned, they permissions are always set here on the participant.

It would be helpful in some circumstances to have roles associated with the Participant model:

• Have permissions tied to roles.
• Be able to model permissions that depend on roles

For example, I have a use case where I have teams of people that relate to people one-on-one. 90% of the time the Participants of a thread will be the user and team member. But sometimes we may have a team admin come into the conversation. In our case, we could look at some positional permission on the Participant to know which user is the user and which is the team member but it would be easier to know that the "regular user" in a Thread is actually the Participant with the user role.

[RTippin]

This sounds like an excellent idea! I will be working on version 2 soon, and will look into the best way to implement this.