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By travischristopher on
We need a module developed that will allow multiple authors to be assigned to each story node, please contact me with your infomation/ rates to develop such a module. We would like to move on this ASAP.
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Travis,
Travis,
Can I ask: how do you plan to provide the names of the author to the system, manually or automatically?
Examples of what I mean:
Manually - a user selects, perhaps from a drop-down, one or more other members/users who are to be classed / included as authors
Automatically - every user that edits a particular node is to be added to the list of authors
more details
This module will be used to link multiple authors to short journal type articles. Currently the entire production process will be managed by a technical producer, but if the UI was suitable for editorial members of the team that would be nice. The primary benefit this module provides in our system is adding additional author avatars to story nodes and providing recent posts content to author bios, but i would love to see something that was general enough to be reused by the community.
* This module needs to work for 4.6
* I can also see this module being vastly useful for collaborative books projects (or any collabortive project for the matter), but that would be entirely secondary to our goals.
* I imagine the UI to be a simple form to pick and attach additional users.
did you get the module?
So, did you get it? I'm interested in such a module too.
Organic Groups and editing options
I'm using Organic Groups in order let people set up groups with special privileges. They can now do it and each new post can be configured to be visible only in specific groups. However, only the creator of a post can edit it. This is not enough collaborative and I also fugured up a possibility to define several authors for a node. Any suggestions?
I found an answer
I reply to myself because reading another post - http://drupal.org/node/36093 - I found that with the option "create new revision" I can let multiple authors modify a post. I then applied the option to create a new revisions by default on some content types (administer > settings > content types).
I'm not totally satisfied with this solution. I would like the first author choose if he/she wants other authors creating revisions.
+1
(See also this forum topic).
I'd like to see this too (for Drupal 5.x in my case). Is anyone working/willing to work on it? I've started looking at how this might be done in Dru 5 and it doesn't look easy.
Ideally I'd like an author to be able to add other authors during node edits. Anyone listed as an author has author rights over the node, and the standard permission system applies from that point on. I'd be happy with any author being able to remove other authors, but more generally this might be an issue for others.
There might be security/trust issues around this that would need thinking about: Evil Hacker creates a node inviting people to download hacked-drupal-5.tar.gz, adds Trusted Administrator to the list of authors and deletes him/herself from the author list.
Transfer Ownership
On a similar note, I'm looking to create a feature by which a user can give ownership of a node to another user.
This seems like a simple function that would just need a confirmation page.
Am I right? Does something like this exist somewhere?
PS: I've started a module...
Version 1:
The interface will allow you to select which content types can be given.
Links will be added as "Request Content" or "Give Item" to the links section depending upon ownership.
Requesting will require Privatmsg.
Giving will provide a list of users you have interacted with over Privatmsg and an autocomplete contact field (like privatmsg.)
Version 2:
Store "Requests" to DB so that they may be merely confirmed by the owner.
"Giving" will populate first from outstanding requests, past exchanges, privatmsg interactions, buddylist, and potentially OG members.
Let me know if you're interested.
I have a solution that uses
I have a solution that uses userreference fields to assign multiple authors - and then kicks people out of the edit page who are not allowed:
http://drupal.org/node/264238
(a tiny bit of custom code needs to be edited and put into a module somewhere)