Looking for ideas: member-specific content

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Posted by beckyblack on August 4, 2009 at 2:40pm

We built a pretty simple Drupal site for a client and we're going back to add in some additional features. Something they'd like to do is have member-specific content upon login. (Example: John Smith logs in and sees text directed only to him or his company). The content will probably just be a page.

We can do this with content types/roles/permissions but our client wants to be able to manage this themselves. I'm afraid that's going to be too advanced/confusing for them.

Looking for any ideas to try. I'm in the process of searching for modules, but if anyone has advice, that would be appreciated!

thanks!

Becky Crane
Promethius Consulting

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Hey Becky, the easier way

Posted by cmcintosh on August 4, 2009 at 3:13pm
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Hey Becky, the easier way would be to setup the Content Type with a CCK User Reference field, letting the client select from autocomplete or select box who the content is targeting, then just setup a views page that filters based on that. Should be simple enough to setup and implement. Also, maybe write a custom module that could detect who was selected and set the correct permisions for viewing it based on that.

Thanks

Posted by beckyblack on August 4, 2009 at 6:37pm
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Thanks, Chris! I'm going to explore that idea.

Indiana

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