Hello,

I find Workbench to be extremely useful except for one problem I can't seem to figure out. I am working on a site that has multiple publishers, who publish edited content in their own section. The problem lies in granting the publishers edit privileges in all sections but just publishing privileges in their own. In theory, I was thinking the following should work:

• Assign edit permissions to an Edit Role, add all Publish users to it and assign it to all Workbench sections.
• Assign publishing privileges to multiple Publishing Roles. Assign each role to its corresponding Workbench Section and add the appropriate Publishing user.

I find this scenario grants publishing permissions for publishing users to ALL Sections – not just the section it belongs to. Is this an implementation error on my part? Any feedback would be welcome. Thanks!

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agentrickard
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Correct. Rule 1 in your example trumps rule 2. Both are applied, which is why you get the reported behavior.

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Drupal_Dude commented

Is there a way to achieve my desired result using Workbench?

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agentrickard
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Not with Workbench Access. It just controls editing. Workbench Moderation will let you control who can move content to a published state.

There is no mechanism, however, for restricting moderation privileges by section. That's a pretty complex feature and would be difficult to administer.