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We can then associate an article to the node Group 1 and make this article available throughout the site, according to the general permissions set on the site. Grant delete: users referencing the same target entity will have the rights to delete content.Grant update: users referencing the same target entity will have the rights to edit content.Grant view: users referencing the same target entity will have the rights to view content.Selecting this option disables all other options below that will be inoperative. The typical use case is to link this content to a group leaving all accessible to visitors, or users 'non-members' of the group, according to the configured access rights on the site. Public: the use of access rights will be those configured globally on the site.

The configuration options granting the permissions on content created are: This new field type adds configuration options to the field referencing the target entities to determine the access permissions for users referencing the same target entities (in our example, the target entities are the content type Group)

Configuring fields Permissions by field is very similar to that the Entity Reference field types. We can then set the field's configuration. We choose here to be able to reference content, with an unlimited allowed number of values. We then set the entity type we can reference, and the number of allowed values. We customize the machine name field: field_pbf_group.

Drupal rules add field to content type how to#

Look in pictures how to set up such a functional.Īfter creating two content types, Article and Group, we add a field Permissions by field to the content type Article. Similarly, involving another Pbf field to users, field must have the same name machine as created on the content type article, we will associate these users with one or more groups, and because of this association these users will have the rights defined on each article related to their common groups. We will then have the possibility of combining articles to one or more groups, and determine for each of these groups the level of rights granted to the group.

To take the example presented in the figure above, we can associate with the content type Article a Pbf field (Pbf for Permissions by field) that will reference the content type Group. The configuration of a field Permissions by field to reference content type entities will allow us to achieve an Organic Group (very) light feature very easily. Access rights management depending on content We will discover the different use cases provided by this module, and configurations necessary to implement flexible access rights. In this latter case, it can give rights to users directly referenced by the field or give these rights to users that reference the user referenced by the field. The module supports the following entity types to generate access rights based on relation with them :

Drupal rules add field to content type update#

Suffice while users have the same field, which reference the same entity, to get the key to open the lock on the content and be able to view, update or delete according to the rights that have been associated to the lock. The field is somehow a lock on its contents, lock whose key is the referenced entity. These fields are based on the Entity Reference field type and add additional properties to determine access rights with respect to the referenced entity and the selected options. Once installed, Permissions by field provide a new field type, named Permissions by field.

The Permissions by field module allows us to control access to contents of a Drupal site in several generic methods, relying on the power of Entity Reference and the Drupal Field API, and to be able to delegate complex management access rights to content publishers according to their needs.ĭiscover this module and the different possible use cases. However, it is possible to achieve similar functionality, albeit without their native functional richness, based on this same access control system, for grouping content, users, and to modulate the access rights to these contents, permissions based on existing relations between the users and contents. This system is the basis of modules as Organic Group or Domain access, which respectively implement groups within the same site and implement a virtual multi-site architecture.īut these powerful modules, because they also provide a configuration and management interface, are complex and therefore longer to port on Drupal 8. The powerful access control system provided by Drupal 8 and permissions can prove to be a decisive criterion for choosing Drupal.