What ACL type to use
I've tried Content Access (ACL) (CA) and Organic groups; but can't get it to work with either for reasons I'll explain.
Let me list my criteria for this new site:
It will have one admin; only admin can edit the front page and menu structure, and forum structure; as such I don't see how Organic groups can be used.
The admin will assign one role to a special user(s) lets call it User Area 1; such that the user can add pages, blogs and UC products only to that page or menu section; in a way that the role will be added to the content when they create it, without admin intervention; in CA this doesn't happen; the admin has to go and edit the content and add them in the Access Control, thus defeating the purpose, that being that once a role is assigned to the user all content they add should take on that role; maybe I'm missing something and this can be done, but how.
This would have to work the same in the forum; the admin will create a forum for role User Area 1, then the users can ask questions there and the special user can add sub forums off this main forum only and maintain that forum.
This will also be true for UC products and so on.
What module or group of modules will I have to use to accomplish this; or is it in the setup and I missed something?
CA vs OG
Is there a way to have either module assign their role to content they create?
Jeff Flesher
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You probably want to set up something with the tac_lite or taxonomy_access and user_force_term modules. Also, see Controlling Access to Content by Configuring Groups as Roles .
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Thanks; you found just what I
At first look the criteria is what I'm looking for, but the method of archiving it using multiple sites is not.
I have been looking at OG; I'm sure it has this feature I just can't figure it out; oh well more playing and I'll get it, eventually.
I don't want to try to get CA, OG and TAC working in harmony not sure if its possible or what I need; it seems simple enough idea; I just want the users role to be assigned to the content they create so they can later edit it without the admin having to assign the role to the content; I'm not sure why it wouldn't do this out of the box to begin with.
Thanks
Jeff Flesher
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User roles are not something that can be assigned to content types. imo you're over-complicating this. The simplest way to do it would be to setup a taxonomy vocabulary that matches your user roles, use tac_lite for the access control based on that taxonomy, and setup a rule (using the http://drupal.org/project/rules module) to assign the term for the author's role upon node creation. I looked at user_force_term and I'm not sure it handles roles. Rules definitely can do it and is useful for lots of other things as well.
You don't need og, ca, and tac all at the same time.
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