How To? - Collaborative Writing...
Here is what I want to accomplish. Hopefully some of you out there can help me get started and point in the right direction (i.e. modules, concepts and first steps).
Let's say Person1 starts a new article topic. Person1 is now the owner of that article and therefore has special rights. Persons 2-4 contribute to the article by adding sections. They can only add and cannot delete or modify previous parts. Person1 is the only person that can modify or delete parts of the article. I should note that anyone has the ability to add, they don't need permission from Person1. In this example it was only persons 2-4 but it could have been any number of people.
To all other users who just want to read the article, when they visit the article, they will see a seemless (or nearly seemless) article written out on the page (i.e. not broken up too badly like in forum posts).
So is this possible? And if so is it fairly easy? What do you recommend I do to get started?
Thanks.
-Keith
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The easiest way I can think of to handle this would be to create a content type the original article piece and another content type for each addition (using a nodereference field to refer back to the original article piece) then use http://drupal.org/project/views to present them together as one article. You may wish to chekcout the http://drupal.org/project/nodereference_url module for this as well.
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Good idea
Thanks WorldFallz,
That sounds like a pretty good solution without too much hassle. Do you have any thoughts on how to give ONLY give the original poster the ability to modify/delete content once its been submitted?
Thanks again.
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If you don't need to retain the original author, you can simply change the author to the author of the top level piece.
Alternatively maybe you could get what you need with http://drupal.org/project/author_taxonomy and http://drupal.org/project/tac_lite or http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_access.
This is an interesting use case-- be sure to post back with what you end up using!
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Thanks
Again, these are great ideas. I will continue looking into these different ideas as well as others to see what works the best.
I will definitely post back which approach I end up going with.