On a site I'm working on, some users only have permission to create blog entries via core blog module. If a user only has the ability to create blog entries, they can't see any links in the admin menu.

Now, I realize that this is called admin menu for a reason (and I know that there are workarounds, bookmarks in the browser being one), but I guess this worked under the Drupal 5 version, because users started reporting this to me after a recent upgrade to Drupal 6. Admin menu is a nice way to do this, so if it can work, I'd like it to.

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sun
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Category: bug » support
Status: Active » Postponed (maintainer needs more info)

To my knowledge, this also did not work in D5 -- unless you granted your users another permission that makes the top-level item "Content management" visible in the tree (f.e. "administer taxonomy" or similar).

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chellman commented

I'll have to look through the module to see how this might be done, but would it be crazy to try to write a patch for this? I'm happy to do that if you'd be receptive to it. I don't know if something this specific would be worth it or not.

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sun
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Note that, in 3.x-dev, the "Create content" sub-menu is not yet part of the menu, because I left that out in the rewrite (#276751: Allow to alter/customize/add links in administration menu) to only deal with the basic functionality first.

I'm not sure whether this can be patched at all. 3.x-dev has been rewritten and relies on Drupal's regular menu system to build the menu tree.

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sun
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Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info) » Closed (duplicate)

Marking as duplicate of #502500: Re-add Create content. You can follow up on that issue to track its status instead. If any information from this issue is missing in the other issue, please make sure you provide it over there.

However, thanks for taking the time to report this issue.