By Rustrom on

Good day everyone,

I'm new to Drupal and was wondering if I could get a pointer in the correct direction.

I'm setting up a community site and we'll have several classes of users. We want to have a photo album but the pictures have to be restricted from certain classes of users (various people do not want their image available publicly).

In my perfect world, the pictures would be tagged when they are uploaded with a list of the people appearing in them, and the users could indicate in their profile page if they were comfortable having their pictures available publicly.

A subperfect but still acceptable world would have each picture with a checkbox that could be set by the moderator to indicate what groups the photo should be visible to.

Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

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yelvington’s picture

yelvington commented

A subperfect but still acceptable world would have each picture with a checkbox that could be set by the moderator to indicate what groups the photo should be visible to.

That's exactly what the Organic Groups module does.

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Rustrom commented

Hrm I took a look at it, and it's not quite what I'm looking for in that as far as I can tell it's intended to be visible to the users. I'm looking for a moderator-level visible control that is hopefully transparent to the users.

I'll poke at it some more though and see if I can get it to behave the way I need, as it's 80% of the way there :)

Thanks!
Rusty

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Muslim guy commented

Rusty

to have more `intimate' kind of privacy per content, use `node_access'

We set so that any image is only visible to the owner, and he/she can click `grant' to grant access to roles or a user (have to enter the name of the users)

Organic Groups (og.module) is also suitable

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thatashok commented

What about straight forward role based access control? Users in a specific role have access to your image content types, others don't.

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Muslim guy commented

`Node access' takes time to `get it' for the users not used to Drupal. Its quite different from say `Facebook or Frienster or Elgg access control, where you get to set `friends only'

Did try Elgg

And yes, if the user just want to allow specific roles then he can just click the role, or more than 1 roles, and in addition, usernames