Permissions: Workflow Access Support for non-Node Entities

This is an issue I would also like to have it solved.

Unfortunately I haven't found a generic way to affect all entities, because (other) entities are defined using hook_entity_info and they may set their custom 'access callback'.

Fortunately (kinda) for my case (entityform) there is a hook_entityorm_access_alter and by using that in a custom module I made my installation support workflow access for entityform.

The code I used is below:

/**
 * Implements hook_entityform_access_alter().
 */
function mymodule_entityform_access_alter(&$access, $op, $context) {

  if (!in_array($op, array('view', 'edit', 'delete'))) {
    return $access;
  }

  // if (!$access) {
    $entityform = $context['entityform'];
    $user = $context['account'];
    $workflow_fields = _workflow_info_fields($entityform, 'entityform');

    if (count($workflow_fields) > 0) {

      reset($workflow_fields);
      $workflow_field_name = array_pop($workflow_fields)['field_name'];
      $sid = workflow_node_current_state($entityform, 'entityform', $workflow_field_name);

      $user_roles = array_keys($user->roles);
      if ( !empty($entityform->is_new) || (isset($entityform->uid) && ($user->uid == $entityform->uid))) {
        $user_roles[] = WORKFLOW_FIELDS_AUTHOR_ROLE;
      }

      $grants = workflow_access_get_workflow_access_by_sid($sid);
      $access = FALSE;

      foreach ($grants as $grant) {
        if (in_array($grant->rid, $user_roles)) {
          if ($op == 'view' && $grant->grant_view) {
            $access = TRUE;
          }
          if ($op == 'edit' && $grant->grant_update) {
            $access = TRUE;
          }
          if ($op == 'delete' && $grant->grant_delete) {
            $access = TRUE;
          }
        }
      }
    }

  // }

}

Note that I wanted to override previous access set by entityform_access if there is a workflow field in it.
In case that you want to grant access to someone who previously didn't have, you may uncomment the if (!$access) clause (and possibly comment "$access = FALSE;" because it would be already set to FALSE so it won't be needed for this case).

Hope it saved some time to someone, until a better solution is found.

workflow_access is now ported to D8, so, this issue is moved to the highest version.

Has there been any development for this issue over the last couple years? I'm using custom entities and workflow access doesn't seem to be enforcing the permissions that i set for them. Any suggestions?

I have the same issue on latest drupal 8 release of that module