By tschenz on

I have created a role called "editor" and I have given them permission to "edit any page content". But when an editor signs in, there is no edit button present on the Home page. How do I allow 'editor' to edit the home page?

Tim

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catch
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The 'edit any page' content only applies to the page content type, not to any page on your site.

The default home page in Drupal is a list of any node 'promoted to front page' - this can only be edited by changing it in admin/settings - where there's an option to specify a different path for that page to point to. This could be a 'page' created from node/add/page - which would allow your editor to change it, or you could change it to something else (like a panel from the panels module).

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jonfhancock commented

Agreed. If your home page is a continuously updated teaser view of new nodes, then your editor will have to edit the nodes individually. Unless you make a static home page, there will never be an 'edit' link.

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mlncn commented
  • You can add a custom edit link for privileged roles, see snippet to add to node.tpl.php
  • Panels 2 has edit links for authorized users for all content it embeds.
  • Zen theme provides direct edit links for content in a much slicker way than my clumsy snippet above.

And there's a module called double-click I think that let's you edit any node by double-clicking the title.

So there are usability improvements to make the ability to edit more exposed for the front page, panels, views, etc.

benjamin, Agaric Design Collective

benjamin, Agaric

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carole commented

I set the Site Information to point to a custom home page, and I gave my role "Editor" permissions to update pages, update her own pages. However, she cannot update the home page. Does anyone have a work around other than editing page.tpl.php? I'm using Garland, BTW.

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thekurt commented

I had the same problem. The role could edit all the pages except the custom homepage.

1st solution : custom role must have permission for input-format of the node.

The role I assigned didn't get the permission to select the input-format : php-code. I changed the input-format of my custom homepage to full-html. My custom role did have the full-html-permission.

And behold : the edit-tab appeared for the custom role on the custom homepage.

@carole : If you're in the same situation then maybe this is your solution.

2nd solution : assign all input-formats to that role at administer>settings>filter.
I have NOT done this because I don't want that role placing php-code in pages.

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nvhzudnip commented

1st solution worked like magic. Just had to register to say "thank you."

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natts
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...so thanks!

I really think the permissions for input formats should be on the Permissions page, not on their own module page. It would be a lot more straightfoward to figure out problems like this.