You might also want to look at Monsters Menu which does some sophisticated stuff:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/10231

Kyle

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eBusiness Center @ BYU
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On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 10:51 AM, Andrew Berry <andrewberry@sentex.net> wrote:
I've created a g.d.o page to document this.

http://groups.drupal.org/node/20913

Larry, it'd be great if you could add your module when you release it, especially any rationale as to why you didn't look at expanding the other modules out there.

--Andrew


On 3-Apr-09, at 10:46 AM, Bill Fitzgerald wrote:

We (FunnyMonkey) released the book manager, which gives individuals the right to create book that only they can add pages to.

The nodes within those inividual books can then be governed by any of the usual suspects wrt access control.

So, a menu admin could create the outline, with people being granted access to edit/view nodes as needed.

What's missing, of course, is access rights that cascade down the hierarchy.

But the Book Manager is here: http://drupal.org/project/book_manager

Cheers,

Bill

Larry Garfield wrote:
Do you need view access control or edit access control?  We (Palantir) actually just developed an edit access control module based on menu position for a client.  We plan to release it as soon as the site launches, which hopefully shouldn't be too long.  What's your time frame?
On Thursday 02 April 2009 6:33:02 pm Josh Koenig wrote:

Hey all,

I'm about to launch into yet another custom module build, and I wanted
to see if I'm missing the obvious and this thing already exists (or
has been somewhat built).

The use case is to allow access to nodes (node_access) based on their
placement within a drupal menu tree. Seems obvious, but keyword
searching through available modules didn't turn up anything that
seemed to match. I did locate the "Menu Subtree" module which seems to
provide some complimentary functionality in terms of restricting the
areas of a menu tree into which new nodes can be placed:

http://drupal.org/project/menu_stp

For access, it points to fago's menu_per_role module, but this is
about access to menu links, not node permissions. In the other
node-access modules, I didn't find one that seeks to allow/deny access
based on menu position. So that's what I'll begin working on.

Implementation seems fairly straightforward based on
hook_node_access_records() and hook_node_grants(). Assuming I'm right,
the next fun thing would be looking at integrating this with
menutrails.module so it can work for broader classes of nodes and not
just those placed directly into the menu tree.

Please let me know if I'm missing something obvious. :)

cheers
-josh





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