A bit off-topic and not super critical, but this will also need to spur a discussion of a more manageable access control page if we have something like 5 perms for each content type. Is there an issue/any ideas on how to simplify the access control page? Or, is a super long matrix format still the best way to go? Rob Roy Barreca Founder and COO Electronic Insight Corporation http://www.electronicinsight.com rob@electronicinsight.com Zohar Stolar wrote:
(might arrive twice... excuse me if it does)
I was looking through Drupal.org to find if there is work towards granulating the permissions table a bit more, by adding a way to limit administer/access to nodes by type. The idea (which has certainly been raised before) is to add, next to: | "create TYPE content", |- adding new nodes of that content type |"edit own TYPE content",| - editing _the contents_ of own nodes of that content type |"edit TYPE content", |- editing _the contents_ of all nodes of that content type (whether or not the user has right to create nodes)
two more possibilities: | "view TYPE content" |- roles that are allowed to view the content type's nodes |"administer TYPE content" |- roles that are allowed to modify the publishing options on all nodes of that content type
I encounter more and more situations where I want to delegate the publishing options permission to a specific role, but only to one content type, otherwise I have to give the person control over the whole site's content.
Such a change should be done through core, so actually my questions are: Is there any work on this direction / open issue? Are there already any conclusions? Should I start writing a patch :-) ?
Cheers, Zohar
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