Permissions: Staffwriters Group

saccade · 2009-02-01 21:25:57

I’ve got a few client scenarios, where a modified permission would be a great step forward:

What I would need is something like “Staff Writer Plus”.
That is: Users who may create, write, publish and edit articles of their own but also edit other articles.

Or (the other way round) something like a “Minor Copy Editor”.
That is an editor, who can review and edit other articles, but cannot manage sections and categories, and cannot edit pages and forms, nor manage visitor logs.

Basically this privilege is needed for giving (all) authors on a website the possibility to correct mistakes and false information if they occur in other’s articles, but not giving access to site’s structure and templates.

In a basic version it’s completely sufficient if such a privilage would contain all articles.

If this is possible, maybe an extension of this idea would be nice: Groups of Staff Writers, which can edit articles of members of their own group. e.g. “a”, “b” and “c” may edit articles within this group, “d”, “e” and “f” also within their group, but “b” not a “d”-article.

Any thoughts?
I’d place this in the Feature Ideas, but first wanted to see, if there’s any possible solution as a plugin or else.

Bloke · 2009-02-01 21:31:32

Do either boy_privs or redbot’s GUI version do anything for you?

saccade · 2009-02-01 21:39:02

I already thought about a workaround,
e.g giving all staff writers the same password. For correcting another Staff Writer could simply login, with the appropriate user-login.

But that would have the following problems:

there is no true log function. A correction is logged under the authors name, not under the correctors. o an author never could see, that his article has been edited by another Staff Writer.
it could simply happen, that after correcting another users article you stay logged in by default with the wrong login.
The last point made the workaround impossible. Just mention what could happen, if four Staff Writers publish, and one publishes by accident with the wrong identity from time to time. Obviously peer-to-peer-editing wouldn’t be needed for very long.

saccade · 2009-02-01 21:40:41

Hi Bloke, thanks (didn’t see your post before posting my workaround)!
I’ll habe a look at your suggestions.

redbot · 2009-02-02 00:42:28

saccade wrote:

I’ve got a few client scenarios, where a modified permission would be a great step forward:

Bloke is right, I think you can easily obtain what you’re looking for with both those plugins.

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#1 2009-02-01 21:25:57

Permissions: Staffwriters Group

#2 2009-02-01 21:31:32

Re: Permissions: Staffwriters Group

#3 2009-02-01 21:39:02

Re: Permissions: Staffwriters Group

#4 2009-02-01 21:40:41

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#5 2009-02-02 00:42:28

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