[support] Anonymous users access to some files and all nodes

[Ted]

Luke,

Don't miss Michelle's second recommendation here: create two file fields.

Ted

On 2/15/2011 12:59 PM, Michelle Ziegmann wrote:
> Luke,
>
> If for a particular node, you want to say that anon users can or can't
> access all of the files attached to that node, then Taxonomy Access
> Control should handle this (http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_access).
>
> If instead, on a particular node you want anonymous users to access some
> of the attached files but not others, then I would suggest creating 2
> different file fields - one for publicly-accessible files and one for
> private files.  Then just set content permissions for each field
> separately in the permissions table.
>
> Michelle
>
> On 2/15/2011 5:34 AM, Luke wrote:
>> [Originally under: Access nodes but not files?]
>>
>> On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Michelle Ziegmann wrote:
>>
>>> Enable the Content Permissions module (part of CCK).  Then go to
>>> permissions, and you'll be able to define permissions for every field
>>> individually.  As a caution with this though, you'll have to set
>>> permissions every time you add a new field, or users won't be able to
>>> view your content.
>> Thanks, but I actually left out some information, as I noticed when
>> verifying that in fact I had already done what you suggest.
>>
>> I need to have some files accessible by anonymous users.  The scenario is
>> this:
>>
>> Anonymous users can see all nodes [of type X].
>> Anonymous users can download some files [attached to nodes of X].
>> Authenticated users can see all nodes [of type X].
>> Authenticated users can download all files [attached to X nodes].
>>
>> I had hoped to avoid views for this, but it looks like that may not be
>> possible.
>>
>> I have to use the same content type for both, so that content
>> accessibility can be altered.
>>
>> I can use taxonomy to flag some content as publicly downloadable, and some
>> as privately downloadable, and then structure a view to make the file
>> field available only if public download is flagged in taxonomy for that
>> node.
>> I guess I could also use a CCK checkbox for this.
>>
>> I suppose what that means, is that I must prevent all access to that
>> content type, and make it accessible only via a view.
>>
>> Does that sound like the most logical way to get this done?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Luke