Permissions to Edit Content Only

By renenee on 22 Oct 2008 at 22:10 UTC

I am building a simple 20-page content management system site for a client. I would like them to be able to edit pages (Administer > Content Management > Content) but not create pages (Create Content > Page). I can't seem to find the right combination in the Permissions settings to do that. I can allow them to create content by itself, but I can't allow them to edit the content by itself.

Is there a simple solution to this?

Thanks in advance.

Comments

There are permission setting

gforce301 commented 23 October 2008 at 00:49

There are permission setting for both create and edit for a role. Remove the create rights for their role and make sure they do not have the "administer content" permission for their role.

That's how it's set up

renenee commented 23 October 2008 at 17:29

Thanks for your response.

That is how I have it set up: Under Node module, I have granted them the following:

access content
edit any page content
edit any story content
edit own page content
edit own story content

When I test it out by logging in as a user in that role, it shows the "Administer" menu, with "Content Management" as an option, but when I click on "Content Management," it says "You do not have any administrative items," even though there are pages to list.

Any other ideas?

Right because you edit pages

gforce301 commented 24 October 2008 at 02:14

Right because you edit pages by going to that page.

Confused ...

renenee commented 24 October 2008 at 16:22

I'm a little confused. When I log in as that user with those permissions, it does not allow me to edit the page by either visiting the page or by selecting Administer/Content Management

Can you be a little more specific?

Thank you.

I'm having the same issue. I

Steel Rat commented 12 November 2008 at 02:28

I'm having the same issue.

I have a site where I setup a manager role for the owner to edit content, but the "Edit any page content" permission simply isn't working as advertised. I created an account for myself with that role and the edit tab doesn't show up when you nav to the page. Something isn't right. This is Drupal 6.4...

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Found the answer to my issue

Steel Rat commented 12 November 2008 at 19:26

Found the answer to my issue elsewhere. The input format used for most of the content was full html, and the role in question didn't have access to that input format. Once I gave the role access, everything worked fine.

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Access to input format?

tomsherlock commented 7 February 2009 at 17:56

How did you give your role access to the input format? I don't see input format as an option under user content > permissions.

I'm trying to do something similar to you. I have the role, editor, which has the right to edit any page, edit own page and access to administration page. I am unable to edit anything under content management, however.

Help would greatly be appreciated.

Tom

Hey, It's pretty easy. Just

Steel Rat commented 14 February 2009 at 06:04

Hey,

It's pretty easy. Just go to Administer>Site Config>Input Formats. Then edit the Full HTML (or appropriate) input format. You should have checkboxes for the roles you've created, along with the default roles.

Hope that helps.

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RPGMapShare.com
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Thanks. I was having the same

pik commented 8 June 2009 at 00:12

Thanks. I was having the same issue. It works!

I have the same issue. I have

perrschy commented 11 August 2009 at 00:18

I have the same issue. I have a role that can create content (which is unpublished and has be published by an administrator), however, these users can not edit their content. In Administer > Site config > Input Formats, I gave the user group the permission to use Full HTML. Still, it doesn't show up in Administer > Content Management > Content.

The user permissions are set to "create content_type_x" and "can edit own content_type_x" as well as "can access nodes".

Am I missing something?

Thanks!

(Using Drupal 6.12)

The role may need access to

Steel Rat commented 28 June 2010 at 23:26

The role may need access to admin menus to be able to see anything Administer. I'm not sure about that, though. Can they just view the content then click the Edit tab?

Thank you! This worked for

cirlot commented 3 June 2010 at 20:32

Thank you! This worked for me.

Alright, i feel really

cirlot commented 24 June 2010 at 18:31

Alright, i feel really stupid. Here i am only 21 days later working on a different site with the same issue. I googled it. Found this page. Found my previous comment about this working. So, I will confirm a second time. This solves the problem.

this just had me stumped for

code-brighton commented 16 August 2010 at 22:07

this just had me stumped for hours... And I know I've had this problem before! The input format and the way they affect permissions always seems to catch me out, don't think it's that intuitive... Thanks to the drupal community again... wish I had googled earlier.

thanks for that pointer -

petednz commented 30 November 2009 at 23:14

thanks for that pointer - indeed even if a person has permissions to Create a particular content type, they won't be able to edit an existing one, if that existing one is using an Input Format which that Role does not have access to. THanks

peter davis : fuzion : connect.campaign.communicate : www.fuzion.co.nz

I just wanted to say THANKS

larsbc commented 25 January 2011 at 00:42

I just wanted to say THANKS to those of you who posted a solution to this problem. I just came across it now, after going through the list of permissions over and over again, trying to figure out what I missed. Hopefully I'll remember this the next time this happens!