Allow end users to post to a Blog

Posted by druzilla on January 15, 2013 at 11:05pm

I've set up a user on my site under a new role called 'publisher' with permission to add News items to my site (as a Blog).
I have a View of Content Type called 'News' which is linked to a Menu item also called News.
I have also set the user with permission to add content to News and also Edit.
I can see how they can edit the item from News, by loggin in, selecting the item via the News menu, then they get a Tab to Edit.
But where is the option to Add a News item? How do I provide that?

thanks

Steve

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Hi cardiffsteve, If you give

Posted by Wellsy on January 15, 2013 at 11:42pm

Hi cardiffsteve,

If you give them the permissions "Use the administration toolbar" the users should then have the Drupal toolbar across the top with a "Add content" link.

That's assuming you're on D7

Andy Wells
Web and Drupal Development
Fluid: Drupal in Derby

thats great, many thanks, I

Posted by druzilla on January 16, 2013 at 12:16pm

thats great, many thanks, I will try that tonight.

In Joomla I would have given the user a 'create news' menu option , they would only be able to see this menu option once they login and the have the right level of access and permission. I presume that is also possible in Drupal?

I really like your website, did you create the template yourself? How did you achieve the panels - did you use drupal panels ? probably a silly question.

Steve

thanks

www.lucywebsites.co.uk

Hi Steve, Yes, if you set the

Posted by Wellsy on January 23, 2013 at 11:03pm

Hi Steve,

Yes, if you set the permissions then the administration toolbar will only show the links they should have access to automatically.

Glad you like the website. It's not panels - we wanted a responsive website so it's a custom module we wrote

Cheers

Andy Wells
Web and Drupal Development
Fluid: Drupal in Derby

If you create a menu item

Posted by gkom on January 24, 2013 at 9:36am

If you create a menu item with a link to node/add/news only the users that have the "News: Create new content" permission will be able to see it.

You could create a block with various links/content and control its visibility by role. So if you have a 'news author' role you can configure the block to be displayed to users with that role only.

You could also create a new menu, add administrative links for the authors and then create a block for that specific menu using Menu Block and control its visibility by role.

this is really helpful, many

Posted by druzilla on January 25, 2013 at 10:24am

this is really helpful, many thanks, I will give that a go. I must admit the user access / role permissions side of drupal is far superior to any other CMS I have used todate.

thanks