Does drupal meets my requirement
cooldinesh - October 9, 2009 - 05:32
I want to create a site in which a page posted should go through a workflow i.e from author -> reviewer -> tester -> publisher. This workflow is created and works fine but what we want is roles ( author,reviewer, tester and publisher) for every perticular group of pages should be different and they should not have cross access to other group of pages. i.e technology related pages should have diifferent roles assigned and process related pages should have diffrent roles. How can we achieve it.
Yes Maybe
I'm not a Drupal expert but since none have chimed in yet, I will. I believe you CAN do what you want with Drupal but it might not be easy.
One thing to keep in mind: you don't mention what sort of conditions there might be for editing an already published page. If that's not a big concern for you, that makes things easier. But if you want a similar workflow to be used for modifications to already published pages, not just for new pages, expect additional complexity for that part.
I don't know of any mid-range CMS like Drupal that's any better at this stuff but if this is a really big deal for you I certainly wouldn't call "workflow" one of Drupal's strong points. (And Drupal has many, many strong points.)
Good luck!
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You can segment your sites/roles into areas in a couple of ways. one method is to use the http://drupal.org/project/og module. Another would be with taxonomy and either http://drupal.org/project/tac_lite or http://drupal.org/project/taxonomy_access.
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