[development] Even more flexibility in content management

[Johan Forngren]

You added some good points to the discussion, however...

On 12/29/06, Earnie Boyd <earnie at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>
> On 12/28/06, Rob Barreca <rob at electronicinsight.com> wrote:
> >  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?
> >
>
> Let's think it through a bit:
>
> Read, Create, Delete (RCD)


Update/edit should be added here

Self, Group, Others   (SGO)


Others could be both members/visitors. I think we should separate them. We
should also separate group and roles or merge them completely, see
http://drupal.org/node/53772#comment-111016.

Host, Module, Content (HMC)


What do you mean with "host"? The site in general?

Admin, Non-Admin (AN)
>
> Does this cover the access control groupings we need?  I.E. Did I miss
> anything?
>
> * User with RCDA rights at Host controls all.
> * User with RCA rights at Host controls all but may not delete or disable.
> * User with RCDN rights at Host and RCDA rights at Module (each module
> is specified) would be able to read, change and delete all content,
> would not be able to admin (publish or promote) content unless that
> content was with the RCDA module list.  This user also has the ability
> to modify the settings that control the Module.
> * ...
>
> So how do we apply this to the role we are creating?  The view of the
> role form would need to change so that above groupings become a
> checkbox group and the form would have a module list box.  The user
> creating the role would check the values wanted and then select the
> modules it applys to.  The list of modules would include selection for
> <all> modules and would be the default.
>
> Earnie Boyd
>



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