[support] content provider role?

Richard Damon Richard at Damon-Family.org
Sat Jan 14 03:03:03 UTC 2012


On 1/13/12 9:30 PM, Warren Vail wrote:
> 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
>
I believe Workbench Access may meet your need. Content is assigned a
"Section", possibly based on Taxonomy, and editorial access for groups
can be conditioned on the Section the content is in.

-- 
Richard Damon



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