[Zope-CMF] Content types per role

Marc Lindahl marc at bowery.com
Thu Dec 18 11:10:09 EST 2003


I do this by checking "access contents information" only for the roles 
I want, each type in portal_types.  That controls what shows up in that 
role's 'add...' list....

On Wednesday, December 17, 2003, at 08:42  PM, Alexander Limi wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:31:54 -0600, alan runyan <runyaga at runyaga.com> 
> wrote:
>
>> well.  either in Plone or in CMF we need to allow Portal/Plone 
>> folders to be able to
>> override this method to constrain what content types can be created 
>> per Folder instance.
>> currently its too coarse grain for InfoArchitects to constrain what 
>> content can be added to
>> specific folders (currently you end up w/ portal_type explosion).
>
> This touches on the #1 thing I would like to see in the CMF:
>
> Permissions for each content type, so you can restrict it so that only 
> Managers can add MessageBoards, and one type (role) of user can only 
> add Documents, while another can add Documents, Events and Images - as 
> an example.
>
> I know little about the internals of CMF in this matter, but I've 
> noticed that there's only a generic "Add portal content" permission.
>
> How hard would this be to fix in CMF 1.5 or 1.6?
>
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