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 -- It is told that such are the aerodynamics and wing loading of the bumblebee that, in principle, it cannot fly...if all this be true...life among bumblebees must bear a remarkable resemblance to life in the United States. -- John Kenneth Galbraith, in American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power
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
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@drupal.org [mailto:support-bounces@drupal.org] On Behalf Of Warren Keuffel Sent: Friday, January 13, 2012 3:29 PM To: support@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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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
Quoting Warren Keuffel <wkeuffel@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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-- It is told that such are the aerodynamics and wing loading of the bumblebee that, in principle, it cannot fly...if all this be true...life among bumblebees must bear a remarkable resemblance to life in the United States. -- John Kenneth Galbraith, in American Capitalism: The Concept of Countervailing Power
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