By gregolin on

Hi.
I created a new content type and a new user, with permission to create/edit/delete this content...
My problem is because this user doesn't have the CONTENT MANAGER item menu (in admin area)... only CREATE... why?
Thanks.

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marcvangend
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I think you also have to enable the 'administer nodes' permission if you want to grant access to that admin page. On the other hand, this specific page (/admin/content/node) is not necessary to edit content. If you allowed the user to add and edit this content, he can also edit the content by browsing to that content and clicking the 'edit' tab. If you don't want to set the adminiter nodes permission, but you don't want to rely on the edit tab either, there's a third option: With the views module, you can create a view with the content of a specific type and their edit links.

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gregolin commented

Hi Marcvangend.
Thanks to your help... but...
The first option is bad, because with ADMINISTER NODES, this user can create page, pools and othes too... and this is a problem...
The second, I have problems... because I use a specific theme (our designers created it), then it doesn`t have this tab...
The third I think that is the best to my problem... but ok, I create the view... no problems, but how can I show this results to this user? Do I put a template (equal /admin/content/node) and put this in admin menu? How can I put a new link in admin menu?
Thanks very much.

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@ option 1:
Are you sure that 'administer nodes' automatically gives the right to create all types of nodes? Myself, I'm never sure what this permission does exactly.
@ option 2:
If your designers have a little knowledge about Drupal theming, they can implement the tabs. Remember that they don't have to look like tabs, they can also be plain links, displayed somewhere else. Implementing the edit-tab will offer the end user a very intuitive way to edit content. (However there is another problem with this option: if you forgot to create a menu item for a new node, it can be hard to find it again.)
@ option 3:
When you create the view, you can specify the url path where it's accessible. You can also restrict access to this view by role or by permission. Finally, you can also create a menu item for the view. Once the menu item is created, you can move it anywhere in the Drupal menu's, also in the admin menu.