[support] content provider role?

[Warren Vail]

Roles are most frequently used to control access to capabilities, and fail
to consider that sometimes you want to control access to subsets of data,
for example you may want to create the equivalent of a role that can edit
articles on one subject versus another (both have the ability to edit
articles, but each on their own subset of the article data.

I would love to find a module that would allow me to tie access permission
to a collection of taxonomies, article categories, as an example.  Failing
to find such a thing, I have begun rolling my own.  Is there something that
would handle this?

Warren Vail

-----Original Message-----
From: support-bounces at drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces at drupal.org] On
Behalf Of Warren Keuffel
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 3:29 PM
To: support at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [support] content provider role?

This is a strength and commonly-used feature of Drupal. First, you need to
create a "Role" for your sub-editor (found under Admin > People). Once that
role is created, you can give that role the permissions you want via Admin >
People > Permissions. To take a simple example using the "Article" content
type, create the role and then go to permissions and give that role the
ability to perform some tasks but not others on Articles. The same process
works on content types that you create.

-WK


On Jan 13, 2012, at 3:22 PM, Dave Stevens wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to use Drupal as a newbie and want to create a user type 
> called content provider. Basically I want folks to be sub-editors on 
> the site, so they can add content and edit it, but without being 
> administrators. Is there something I'm missing in thinking that this 
> needs an add-on? Can I do this straight out of the box?
> 
> References welcome.
> 
> Dave

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