By robby1066 on

Is there an easy way to allow a user to edit a node, but not delete it? I know that might sound wierd, but I have a site where there are a few defined sets of several pages that are created by a main admin, and then the editing duties are passed off to another admin who is just in charge of day to day updates for a particular set. I could just make sure the update admins are trained not to delete the nodes, but I would like to just remove that possiblity altogether.

I was looking at taxonomy_access, and it looks like it should do most what I need, but the delete permission isn't working like I would expect. What I'm doing:

1. assigning all content pages in the set to a specific taxonomy term.

2. assigning the user to a updater role for that set.

3. in category permissions, I check the "view" and "update" permissions for that set, but leave "Delete" unchecked.

I do this for a few different users with a few different sets of content, and the users only see the content they are supposed to, but they can also delete content, which they're not supposed to be able to.

I know in general a user should be able to delete a node they have access to edit, but this is a special case. Anyone have any ideas? I searched the forums for a good long while but couldn't come up with anything.

Thanks!
Robby

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robby1066 commented

since all I needed to give the editors access to were static pages, I just tweaked the page module's page_access function so there was a seperate permission for edit and delete pages. That seemed to do the trick. Way simpler than I was afraid it would be.

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mlncn commented

Until then, this'll do the job without hacking core:

http://agaricdesign.com/note/disable-delete-regular-users

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Bartezz commented

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jeffschuler
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Benjamin, does your solution provide something that the Nodeaccess and Content Access modules don't?

BTW, it looks like the download link on that page is broken.

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dejbar commented

Managed to find it at

http://data.agaric.com/sites/default/files/form_tweak-no-delete-alpha.zip

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SeanBannister commented

Replying because this ranks in Google, there's a module called Jammer that does this.