Hey All,
I have an issue that's been nagging me for, years..
Currently still on a drupal 6 site for the one I need this for..
I am trying to find a way to allow a node to be 'owned' (and therefore edited freely) by a GROUP of people, not just one user.
Example. I have a 'page' content type and one particular page needs to be editable by 5 different people, all of whom are in 'marketing' department.
As I understand it, even if i have a marketing 'role' I still can't give the marketing 'role' permissions correctly because I want them to just edit this one page, not 'all nodes of type PAGE'
Anyone solved this?
I looked into organic Groups at one point, but it was a huge project and I still was not sure it would do what I want.
So in summary, what i really want is:
A NODE to have multiple owners.. Somehow.
Thanks!
Comments
What about creating a content
What about creating a content type and a role for those 5 people, and then only assigning edit permissions for that content type to that role?
Or is what you're looking for
Or is what you're looking for the ability to dynamically assign groups of otherwise unconnected users to any node in general?
Agree with studioarrgh
Hi - I think making a new content type and then assigning a role to the marketing folks that gives them edit permissions may be the simplest solution.
It is simple. but I have
It is simple. but I have about 20 content types. its a big site.
Can you imagine X number of Roles time X number of content types?
Real numbers. I have maybe 20 content types and 12 roles.. The math is scary.
The users Could be placed in
The users Could be placed in a group as a 'role'
the trouble is that the NODE is still owned by ONE user.
so.. Unless i give access to that 'role' to edit ALL nodes of type 'page' the problem remains.
Lets say i have 3 'departments' ...
Marketing
Development
IT
I don't want to have to create 3 different page content types:
page-marketing
page-development
page-it
That would get NASTY real fast.
I have experimented with the 'module grants' module. That allows me to add people AFTER THE FACT to be allowed to edit an existing node, but that is a lot of work if i want to make 5 people be able to edit one node.
Any ideas? I'm surprised I have not found a solution for this. Group ownership is such a common thing on unix systems and even others, yet is either lacking or I am not finding it, in Drupal.
What about
What about http://drupal.org/project/nodeaccess ?
Funny thing is.
Funny thing is, nodeaccess is what i am using. I got mixed up as to what installed module did what. 'module grants' is not (i believe) what is controlling this behavior on my site. At any rate, I am not sure a solution exists to give true 'group ownership' to a piece of content.
Quite surprised this is not built in.
Finally someone that thinks like I do, with respect to RW access
I have been trying the Unix group/ACL permission type of access for Drupal to an organization that has many different groups that would like to be selective on sharing information. I have tried with Drupal 6, then 7. Planning on looking at the Drupal Beta 8 over the Winter holidays for a solution that needs to be implemented by early January.
My take on this is that Windows is the weak link in implementing group/ACL permissions on content.
Would taxonomy help?
Could you create a taxonomy list for the role types. Then associate editing capabilities with those taxonomy roles.
For instance, add a selector field on the node and allow the user to choose IT or Marketing or Accounting (from the taxonomy terms). Then set the permissions on the node so users of a particular group can only edit nodes associated with the matching taxonomy term (IT role can edit IT nodes).
Would that work?
Josh Fischer
www.artsmithmedia.com