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Restrict create privilege where owner of parent is self.

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Nathan Sharp

Friday 29 September 2006 10:42:22 am

I've looked around a little and haven't found this yet, so my apologies if it has already been requested. I am soon to be administering an image gallery site for a group of people. I would like each person to have create/edit/remove permissions for their own gallery. Obviously I could manually create top-level folders and roles for each person that do this, but I was hoping for something a little simpler. If I could restrict the create privilege to only allow people to create new nodes if the parent node is already owned by them, I think I could implement this with a static list of roles and a user group.

1) Allow users to create folders directly in a top-level node, but not in the subtree
2) Allow users to create folders, galleries, images in any sub-tree of the top-level <i>where they own the parent</i>.
3) Allow users to edit/remove any of the above that they own.

Is this reasonable? Is there some way to accomplish it that I haven't thought of?

Regards,
Nathan

P.S. In a matter of a few hours I was able to put together a site for this group that seriously wowed them. Thanks!

Kristof Coomans

Saturday 30 September 2006 6:05:31 am

Hi Nathan

There was a ParentOwner patch (by Gabriel Ambuehl) submitted for eZ 3.8 on the sdk-public mailinglist (http://lists.ez.no/pipermail/sdk-public/2006-March/002046.html). It didn't make it's way into it but it's definitely worth a try.

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Nathan Sharp

Monday 02 October 2006 6:00:55 am

That looks right on! Thanks!