By polluxmr2 on

I am building a site in drupal to replace a ASP Nuke site. What I want is to be able to have users create books but only be able to add book pages to their own books. I have tried several different modules and googled for a while but to no avail. I found a post that says drupal can natively do wha ti want but it doesn't explain how and i can't seem to figure it out. any ideas?

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benjamin.pauley’s picture

benjamin.pauley commented

I don't have "Book" enabled on my site, but I believe it must behave like the other content types. If you visit yoursite.com/admin/user/permissions, then scroll down to the section with the heading "node module," I believe you'll see a series of permissions checkboxes that will get you what you need.

In your case, I think that you'd want to make sure that your users can "create book content" but only "edit own book content" rather than "edit any book content" (you could also allow users to "delete own book content" but withhold the permission to "delete any book content").

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polluxmr2 commented

thanks for the help. I had already tried that before i posted. I had gotten the content access setup the way i wanted, just the linking of a book page to a book was giving me problems. but yeah, book manager did it. thanks again.

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WorldFallz commented

I've not tried it, but i believe this is what the http://drupal.org/project/book_manager module is supposed to do. http://drupal.org/project/book_access might also be worth a try.

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polluxmr2 commented

Thanks for the help. the book manager module was the ticket. it doesn't provide the exact interface that the book module does but it does do get me to the end goal of what i wanted. there is no "add child page" to personal books. other than that, it works just like the book module just limiting linking of books to personal books tied to your user account.

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marcp commented

@polluxmr2 - There's a new release of Book Manager that fixes a few bugs and adds some features that ought to be of interest to you. Please feel free to submit issues in the queue.