Am I using the wrong module for the job? This is for a school. I would like access to staff area to ONLY the staff users. And access to the student users to ONLY the student users. I have set categories for staff and student and I've installed content access. But I can't see where I tell staff user is only allowed to view staff category and student user the student category. I don't know what "grant content access" means versus "grant own content access." And even when I check those for my roles, it doesn't seem to make a difference.

This is my first foray into the world of Drupal.

thanks for any help.

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robertgarrigos commented

"grant content access" means that the user will be able to grant permissions to other users over any type of content, while "grant own content access" means the user will be able to grant permissions to other users on his own nodes only, this is, the ones he is the author. But this is only about giving grant permissions to rols.

What you are looking for is not in the admin/user/access page, where you find those permissions. You need to go to the admin page for a specific type of content. Lets say you want to change the control access settings for the content type 'story'. You will find that page on /admin/content/types/story/access. There, you can set the default values for that specific content type 'story' and grant view/edit/delete access to your roles (student and staff).

If you have an admin role which could change these settings,and even the per user settings on each node, you would need to give it some of those permissions 'grant content' and 'grant own content'.

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Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)