[support] [solved] Re: content provider role?

[Dave Stevens]

Quoting Warren Keuffel <wkeuffel at gmail.com>:

> 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

excellent! perfect! exactly what I wanted. And looking at all the  
other permissions makes it clear how fine-tuned this can be. Thanks  
very much!

Dave

>
>
> 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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