Licensing

This module allows administrators to moderate entity access by issuing licenses to site users. These licenses may optionally be set to expire at a predefined date and time.

This module provide a new "license" entity which can be used to moderate access to any other entity type(s) and bundle(s). These may be created via a (provided) user interface or programatically.

The license entity has the following base fields:

• Owner (user reference)
• Expiry date and time (datetime)
• Expires automatically (boolean)
• Licensed entity (entity reference)
• Status (select)

You may create and customize your own license types (bundles) via the user interface. Each license type (bundle) has the following configurable options:

• Target entity type: the type of entity that is licensed.
• Target bundles: the bundles that are licensed.
• Restricted roles: the roles whose access are restricted by licenses.

The following default views will ship with the licensing module (work in progress):

• Licenses by status
• Licenses referencing a particular entity
• Licenses belonging to a particular user

Access control

This module currently only manages the "view" permission on the licensed entity and does not affect create, update, or delete related permissions. This should be managed separately. Please submit a patch or feature request if you have a use case for more than the "view" permission.

If an entity type is managed by the licensing module, any user with a "restricted role" will be forbidden to access any entity of that type unless they have a license to do so.

Developers

Because licenses are entities, you can easily create license entities programmatically and hook into the license creation process using the Entity API.

You can also create custom license types (bundles) and export the configuration.