By kjv1611 on

Moder8 Module - Can it be set to where a person posting cannot approve his/her own content?

Hi, I haven't really used this module yet - only installed it so far. But there is a possibility I would like to use it for - or use something else that would handle this better.

I'm considering (have discussed briefly) setting up on our church site the ability for associate pastors, possibly sunday school teachers, and such as that the ability to answer Bible questions or submit Bible studies to the website (drupal 6.9 current).

Along those lines, I thought it would be good to provide some checks and balances on that, and thought the Moder8 module would be perfect for it.

Here's what I imagine:
1. Person1 submits a study, or answers a question.
2. That node is added to the Moder8 queue.
3. Person2 reviews it for anything that seems just far off from our church beliefs, and approves if he finds nothing of concern, or rejects or whatever if he finds any reasons for concern. The two can discuss if it if they like, and then if a conclusion cannot be met, then the Pastor would have the final say.

This may sound a bit cumbersome, but I honestly think a check/balance system such as that would just help to prevent at least most possible headaches. No system is perfect, but if we have something in place, that should at least give some bit of protection. I don't think we'd have much of a problem, but I do know of specific instances when there was a mild problem (not going into detail) - not on the website, but in formal arrangements.

Anyway, it'll be yet a little while, likely, before I can get anything like this set up, b/c I have many more other responsibilities, not to mention the website.

Thanks for any thoughts/suggestions,

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

Comments

kjv1611’s picture

kjv1611 commented

Any thoughts?

vm’s picture

vm commented

I don't believe there is an easy way to do this. Drupal is role based permissions. Not singular user permissions. That said, you may want to consider filing a feature request or paying someone to write a patch for this feature if the developer of modr8, isn't interested.

kjv1611’s picture

kjv1611 commented

That's what I thought as well, just hoping that someone else knew something about it that I hadn't found, and that it would be possible. I guess I could mention it. I'm not sure how cumbersome it could be. In one sense, it doesn't seem like it would be cumbersome, but then again, I could see where it could get cumbersome. Of course, all that said, and I've not looked at the code, nor do I know whether it's written in C, php, etc.

I might post it as a feature request and just see what happens. I know it isn't big enough to warrant trying to pay for someone to fix it (for me at least). It's just one of those things that'd be nice, but definitely not necessary.

vm’s picture

vm commented

drupal is writtenin php as are it's contrib modules.

kjv1611’s picture

kjv1611 commented

So, those that are outside of drupal, such as the FckEditor (which is written in C or C++, if I remember correctly) have to be put in an "envelope" sort of of PHP, which is why we have to first download the Drupal FckEditor module, and then put the FckEditor app from their website into that module?

Or am I way off base here?

;0)

It's really interesting to me. I don't really truly have the time to delve as deep as module development and such as that, but I sure would love to one day! - Well, not really related to my question, just the idea popped up.

vm’s picture

vm commented

Fckeditor as far as I know is written mostly in javascript and encompasses php and a few other technologies to work within those platforms. One needs a drupal.module to plug it into drupal where it needs to work.

I don' know that C or C++ is used for web based stuff. Someone else will have to answer that. When I took C and C++ in college 10 years ago, we used it on terminals not the internet..

kjv1611’s picture

kjv1611 commented

Hmm, I must have been dreaming or else just got the FckEditor docs mixed up with something else I was looking at.. ;0)

dman’s picture

dman commented

It sounds like a sensible option for the moder8 module. A good way to enable peer review. Better than the current can-or-can't role permissions.

.dan.
if you are asking a question you think should be documented, please provide a link to the handbook where you think the answer should be found.
| http://www.coders.co.nz/ |

.dan. is the New Zealand Drupal Developer working on Government Web Standards

kjv1611’s picture

kjv1611 commented

Requested under Modr8. See link for follow-up:
http://drupal.org/node/369279