By jrstmartin on

I know the ability exists to set up a role for such things as "administer comments", "administer forums", and "edit book pages" but I'm looking for something more specific. I would like to allow group managers (the person who creates a group) to manage all their group's content. Like if someone was posting bogus blog/story/forum etc. entries - group managers would be able to get rid of that stuff on their own. Without giving them "administer nodes" control, because with that kind of access they could manage content for the entire site, right? I just want them to be able to administer all content for their group. Is this possible?

Thanks in advance =-)

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vm commented

there is a few modules that i believe will work for this. one of which is og_moderator.module. you may also want to look into content moderator.module and nmoderation.module

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jrstmartin commented

I think I'm asking the wrong questions. What I want to do is different from moderation I guess. I don't want new content to have to sit in a moderation cue, I want it to go live immediately. But, I would like to give group managers the ability to delete bad content of all types within their group. Is this possible? Thanks again :-)

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phuile commented

jrstmartin, are you using Organic Group? If so, can you give me some advise as to where I can find more detailed instructions as to how to set things up? I looked through the handbook list, but since I am not very technical, I am a bit confused. It seems to tell you what you can do but no instructions as to how to do them. Maybe I am not looking as carefully rnough.

If you can give me some pointers, it's greatly appreciated. (I posted something similar as another topic but got no reply and I am getting a little desparate!).

Thanks,
Petre

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jrstmartin commented

Yeah I'm using OG. It's the best module in Drupal in my opinion. I know it's tough to find help. But the reality is that besides README.txt, INSTALL.txt, and the Handbooks page, it's up to you and your creativity to customize your set-up. It's understandable though, it's the nature of open source software. Bottom line: You need to learn a few programming languages. (I get by with knowing HTML, CSS, and very little PHP.) Then when you figure something out that's worth sharing with others - write a Handbook page. (I just wrote one pertaining to Views.)

Anyway, enough rambling. The only "instructions" I've ever seen on OG is in Robert Douglass's book. You can buy it here. Another good Drupal how-to book is Drupal: Creating Blogs, Forums, Portals, And Community Websites. If you want to ask Moshe Weitzman (he created OG) himself, you can do so here.

These are all the pointers I can give you. There are so many possibilities with OG that I wouldn't even know how to begin explaining. I hope this helps and good luck! :-)

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elfur commented

With the caveat that I don't know exactly how ACL works within OG: have you tried giving them the permission to administer nodes (under node.module in access control)

HTH
/elfur.is

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jrstmartin commented

Yeah I tried that and that would work BUT that gives them the power to delte content for my entire site. That's not good. What I want is: to give the functionality of Administer Nodes to Group Managers (or a specified role) but only within their group. If this is not possible I guess I'll make a feature request somewhere.

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pwolanin commented

Unless it's changed, I thought that OG already greanted permission for group managers to edit all content associated with their group? I'm not sure if this includes perrmission to delete, however.

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jrstmartin commented

It's amazing how much of an idiot I can be... Yeah I overlooked that. A group Manager can edit/delete any group content including the group itself by clicking the "edit" tab at the top of a node.

My only beef with this is: Imagine if there was a large group with tons of content added over the years. Maybe even some content had high search engine rankings and were making you money. Then one day the group Manager Joe Blow decides to come alone and delete the entire group and its content. That would just suck now wouldn't it? I have the Delete buttons removed for this reason. I wish there were a better way.

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lias commented

I may not be looking in the right area but even though a user is manager of a group they can't edit group posts of other users. Where is this enabled for drupal 5.1?
Thanks.
Lsabug

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vm commented

The edit tab should be exposed on any node a group manager has the ability to edit within his/her group.

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lias commented

Will they have this edit ability even though it isn't their own node they are editing? I don't want the group managers to be able to edit all nodes (blogs in this case) just the ones specific to their group. The edit tab doesn't show up if the blog isn't their own, at least as far as I've tested as a manager of a group.

Edited May 4 07 - og access control needs to be enabled:
Managers only have editing capabilities if organic groups access control is enabled. Problem with this is that then anonymous users can't view the posts in the group which is what I do want. I'd like to use this as an online classroom so that parents can view what teachers and students, who are members of the classroom/group, post. But enabling og access control disallows anonymous viewing.

How can I have both?

Edited May 7 07 - Okay, now after much futzing about it suddenly dawned on me that I could make group posts public by enabling the feature in organic groups settings. Took a while but finally I've seen the light.
My apologies.

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firebus commented

this gives access to admins to edit/delete nodes

however, they cannot moderate comments on the node

looking into og_moderator module