By photosphere on

I'm fairly new to Drupal and working hard to understand, but still lost .....

I would like to start simple by providing a site that users could register and maintain a private blog/story/book. Users could work on their own creative writings privately - not viewable to any other users. When a user is ready they could "publish" (make public) their writings. Later, it would be nice to allow multiple users to collaborate, but still keeping the fundamental "private" nature of works in progress.

I've tried taxonomy access control with good success at allowing users to have certain abilities, but all posts seem to be viewable to all users. I've also tried the "private" module where the user can mark their post "private" with a checkbox, but all that happens is that the post has a little key icon next to it and is still viewable by everyone.

Can someone help with some basic understanding? I'm using Drupal 5.

Thanks

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mbyrne’s picture

mbyrne commented

Hi, I'm looking to implement more or less the same idea. If I find anything, I will try to remember to track you down or post something in reply.

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portaporpoise commented

I'm trying to do (somewhat) the same thing, but I'm using 4.7. It looks like for Drupal 5 the Private module might be useful for you.

I personally have tried nodeaccess (which is also available for version 5) and node_privacy_byrole (which isn't).

good luck