User access control
cylan97 - April 25, 2007 - 22:56
Hi,
I am trying to set up an intranet for my company so that different users in different departments can post their own content. Can we set up users in Drupal so that they only edit/publish certain areas belong to their departments??
Thanks.
cy
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two methods that could work:
organic groups - one group for each deparment
or create sepearte role for each department & create a taxonomy for each department then use the taxonomy control module to control what roles are allowed to add content to what taxonomy.
Thank you
Thanks. What are the pros and cons of using OG and Taxonomy Control Module?
I have only been running drupal on my test machine for couple weeks. I tested the taxonomy functions (but not the taxonomy control module) and it seemed to work fine to me. I want to use OG but had a hard time figuring out how it works. Do you know if there is any reference material out there?
Thank you very much.
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reference material can be found in the handbook : http://drupal.org/handbook/config/contribmodules scroll down to ogranic groups on linked page.
Thank you
Thanks. What are the pros and cons of using OG and Taxonomy Control Module?
I have only been running drupal on my test machine for couple weeks. I tested the taxonomy functions (but not the taxonomy control module) and it seemed to work fine to me. I want to use OG but had a hard time figuring out how it works. Do you know if there is any reference material out there?
Thank you very much.
One good thing about OG is
One good thing about OG is that you don't have to set up a bunch of content types or specific to each department. You can have one role, such as department and give your dept. folk that role and create a group for each dept. and then you can add the dept members to that group. Then make your content types require a group and your users will have to post their content/nodes to their groups. If you install http://drupal.org/project/category you can also make it so that your groups can become categories which is also nice...although beware if you have forums enabled, category has a bit of trouble living alongside them http://drupal.org/node/140204.
I don't know about taxonomy control module, haven't used it.
Users edit nodes created in the same group
Hi,
Thank you. I set up users from the same department to the same group. How can use OG to allow a user to edit nodes created by another user from the same group?
You probably need to make
You probably need to make one of the users of the group the author of the group (go to the group and click on the edit tab, scroll down to authoring information and enter the name of the user you want to have edit control) then they will be able to edit the posts submitted to the group. You'll need to make sure they have edit permissions in the access control permission list as well.