Nodes are people my friend

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Introduction

Node User is intended to allow nodes to act as users. It does this by creating a user for each node. This functionality can be configured by node type.

This module differs from Content Profile. Content profile is designed to extend a user profile with content from a node. Node User on the other hand is intended to extend a node with a user. The node can still be authored by a different user, and indeed, this is kind of the point.

The practical example for this module would be Facebook "Pages". A Facebook "Page" is not the same thing as a user, but it can ACT as a user, making posts, commenting and voting on things, etc.

Node user lays the foundation of maintaining the node-user relationship. It also provides views relationships linking the users and nodes.

Future developments may include:

  • A switch user interface to allow users to "Act As" one of their node users.
  • Tighter integration with core and common contrib modules
    • Comments
    • Voting API
    • User Points
    • insert your sugestion here

What about Drupal 7?

My current thinking for Drupal 7 is that this should be rewritten as a field
that can be used on any entity. In this case the would be called Entity User

Project information

  • caution Minimally maintained
    Maintainers monitor issues, but fast responses are not guaranteed.
  • caution Maintenance fixes only
    Considered feature-complete by its maintainers.
  • Module categories: Content Editing Experience, Access Control
  • Created by amorsent on , updated
  • shield alertThis project is not covered by the security advisory policy.
    Use at your own risk! It may have publicly disclosed vulnerabilities.

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