Publish permissions per content type [#952616]

Hi,

I was wondering if it is possible to set the publish permissions differently for each role depending on the content type. For example, I have a role named news writer, and I don't want them to be able to publish anything. I have a role named news moderator, and they are the ones responsible for publishing each news story. Then I have a role named page writer, and another one named page moderator, who publish pages.

I'd like to give permissions to some people in my organization to be page news moderator, and page writer but not page moderator, meaning they can write and publish news stories, they can write BUT NOT publish pages. Somebody else will publish the pages.

I've been searching and couldn't find any way to get this. On the permissions pages, there are different "edit revisions" and "view revisions" permissions per content types, but not "publish", so when I give the news moderator role to my users, since it has the "publish" role, they can also publish pages.

Is it possible to do that with the current version of Revisioning + Module Grants? If not, is it possible to replace the only "publish" permission with one "publish" permission per content type, just like the "edit" and "view" permissions?

Thanks

Comment	File	Size	Author
#15	952616-publish-per-content-type-3.patch	1.88 KB	acbramley
#12	952616-publish-per-content-type-2.patch	1.86 KB	acbramley
#10	952616-publish-per-content-type.patch	1.86 KB	acbramley

Comments

Comment #1

rdeboer

Melbourne

commented 26 October 2010 at 22:39

This kind of seggragation of roles/permissions can be achieved by throwing the Workflow module into the mix.
Each content type would have its own workflow. The workflows themselves would be near-identical in the states and transitstions they comprise of, but would differ in the assoicated access permissions. Workflow access permissions can then be set per workflow , per workflow state and per workflow state transition.
See this tutorial: http://drupal.org/project/node/408052

Comment #2

blaiz commented 27 October 2010 at 23:01

Thanks for the answer.

However, it seems overly complicated for what I'm trying to do. Would it be possible just to have one "publish" permission per content type? I don't really understand why the "view" and "edit" permissions can be set for each content type, but not the "publish" permission.

Comment #3

rdeboer

Melbourne

commented 27 October 2010 at 23:46

Version:	6.x-3.9	» 6.x-3.11
Assigned:	Unassigned	» rdeboer
Category:	support	» feature

I'll consider it. Marking as a feature request.
By the way, core's "view revisions" permission applies across all content types too -- so in that sense it's consistent!

Comment #4

cluther

English

Austin, Texas

commented 18 November 2010 at 19:33

What about Content Access? ( http://drupal.org/project/content_access ).

Comment #5

robbm commented 6 January 2011 at 13:01

Just wanted to add my vote for this (and subscribe).

I need to use Workflow for some content types, but would rather not have to use it for all other content types. More granular publish permissions would allow this. Without them, I need to use Workflow for everything.

Comment #6

johnpitcairn commented 16 January 2011 at 23:34

+1 from me. In situations where a full blown Revisioning + Workflow setup is overkill, it would still be useful to have some control over publish/unpublish per content type.

If my current project goes the way I think it might, I'll look at a patch.

Comment #7

DaPooch commented 8 June 2011 at 20:58

+1 also, having more fine grained publishing permissions on a per-content type basis would be AWESOME! It would basically allow our moderators to spread the responsibility of moderating without giving too much control. Since you've already got the view permissioning broken out on a per-content type basis would it be much harder to add Publishing rights per content type?

Comment #8

rdeboer

Melbourne

commented 8 June 2011 at 22:27

I can feel myself starting to bow to community pressure...

Comment #9

acbramley commented 13 June 2011 at 00:02

+1 from me too. We need this functionality in the intranet we are building but no other modules provide this with support to revisioning. We also can't use the Workflow module as we use our own custom workflow.

Comment #10

acbramley commented 13 June 2011 at 03:17

Status	File	Size
new	952616-publish-per-content-type.patch	1.86 KB

I've taken a stab at implementing this and it seems to work as expected with minimal testing. Would be keen to see this get tested by some more people and get more feedback on it.

Cheers,
Adam

Comment #11

rdeboer

Melbourne

commented 13 June 2011 at 08:01

#10:
Thanks for the patch Zombenaute!
I think the logic in #395 needs to be refined a bit and I'll have to double check the final lines of the patch, but don't have development environment with me at the moment.
Will check tomorrow.
Rik

Comment #12

acbramley commented 14 June 2011 at 04:02

Status	File	Size
new	952616-publish-per-content-type-2.patch	1.86 KB

Yeah after testing a bit today I rerolled with $node->revision_uid instead of $node->uid. This seems to be more robust.

Comment #13

rdeboer

Melbourne

commented 14 June 2011 at 07:35

@Zombienaute, #12
Thank you!
I ran out of time today and am attending the Drupal user group in Melbourne tonight, so maybe tomorrow...
Will probably port this to D7 too..