New access perm: View unpublished nodes

I just create a view that displays unpublished nodes.

The user who created the unpublished node should be able to see it - otherwise they have no way to go back to view, edit, delete or finally publish it (unless they want to remember some obscure node URL)

I don't think it requires an extra permission - it should be automatic. If you have any unpublished nodes then you should be able to view them (and do whatever else to them that your permissions allow, including edit or delete them).

I still think the best option is to create a view showing the unpublished posts.

This is what I do for all my sites.

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Hi u all,

today we discussed same problem and for that we had decided to use module "workflow" instead of doing this anywhere else. The "workflow" module does everything you need for viewing and reviewing node content as well as an extend ACL settings for options like "which role has access to which state while being in publishing context".

See also my issue here for a patch to "override_node_options.module" to leave Author-Info untouched if it was not given by form alter.

Tom

I believe this is a very much needed feature.
Referring to two other modules attempting, more or less, the same thing.
http://drupal.org/project/cmf
http://drupal.org/project/publishcontent
The first doesn't allow for giving publish, etc rights based on roles. Which is a prerequisite. A certain role can have rights to decide wether or not certain node types should be published, but not automaticly for all possible node types. In my case some users can override the node options, but aren't allowed to edit, create or delete those nodes.
The latter module defines publish rights by role, but doesn't provide an overview or makes other content management rights available. It does however expand on the edit node menu. Thus in combination with views, I consider it half way there.

A view displaying all nodes like the tracking, but with all possible filters for searching, only showing the nodes that can be overridden by the user and some extra actions allowed for that user role is probably the best solution. Then all override options can be set separatly by node type and user role.
However allowing a minimized edit form for nodes, just displaying the allowed node options, for users who can only override node options, would be way cool. Then they can just surf the site and override options on the go.

If only I had all the time in the world ;-).

What about this;

http://drupal.org/node/357594#comment-1195499

Looks like http://drupal.org/project/view_unpublished does what people need.
Marking this as wontfix.

Hmm, actually, we could do with a link to that module on this module's page.

@timmillwood, could you take care of that please?

I was going to fix (add link to project page), but can't edit the project page.

Opened an issue. http://drupal.org/node/647048

You should be able to because you're up there as the project owner!
I wonder if this is the same problem as #646586: Detection of the maintainership of a project broken.