Permissions Control
Hi,
I 'm not sure If I'm in the appropriate place, but I don't know where else I could ask. So I would be obliged if you could just give me some tips or another more appropriate link to post.
Let's say that I have created 10 content types, i.e. ct1, ct2, ... ct10. I have also used the "administration menu" in order to have a more intuitive control of the contents of my sites. Let's say that we have the two default roles of drupal, i.e. unauthenticated and authenticated users. I would like, for security reasons, to give access for creating, editing, deleting etc, to authenticated users for only ct1 and ct5. Also, in order to have a better control of the contents I would like also to give them access to "administration menu". So, the only thing that I should do is to enable the following permissions:
access administration menu => enabled
create ct1, ct5 => enabled
delete ct1, ct5 => enabled
edit ct1, ct5 => enabled
Although the above permissions work, they don't appear in the access administration menu, i.e. I don't have the "Content Management" menu with a "Create Content" submenu. I have just found by experimentation that I had to enable the "access administration pages" permission. Although it had the result I wanted, there was something that it should not be there. The "Site Configuration" menu had also been enabled, which has the sub menus "By module" and "Input Formats" which means that an authenticated user will have access to somewhere he should not.
The other problem is that the authenticated user has not access in "Content Management>Content". So again I found out that this is being controlled by "adminster nodes" permission. If it is enabled it, then the authenticated user can create,edit, etc every content type.
I was looking for a module for my needs, but I can't find any. Is there anything I could do?
Thanks in advance
Doesn't have anybody any
Doesn't have anybody any suggestions? I 'm trying to find a solution for this for quite long...
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As indicated by the title, the admin_menu module is aimed at administrators. You're better off creating a custom menu with the options you want and using something like http://drupal.org/project/simplemenu instead.
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Thanks WorldFallz for your
Thanks WorldFallz for your reply. It seems that simplemenu is very similar to administrator menu, so I can't figure out how this will solve my problem.
The other option, about creating a custom menu, seems to be more logical, but I wanted to avoid it. I think that it has to do with how drupal handles the permissions. Even if I create a custom menu, this doesn't mean that the user doesn't have access to pages that I don't want to have.
You said that the admin_menu module is aimed to administrators. This is what I want for some authenticated users but with restrictions.
Nobody? Where else could I
Nobody? Where else could I ask?
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You can ask as many times as you like, there really isn't another answer. Either give a role "access admin menu" permissions and set permissions appropriately, or create a custom menu and again, set permissions appropriately. And lastly, as with anything drupal, you can custom code a module to get the desired behavior. That's pretty much it.
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