Hey Arra, Ah, thank you for your response!
Indeed, I suppose my only problem there would be that (I'm guessing?) it would still require them to go into the Admin interface to create it with that approach? I'm going to try something out... not sure if it will work the way I want (or if it's a best practice), but I see that you can create your own Controllers still in Modules. Perhaps if I can write custom routes to custom pages for the creation of these "groups" it would let the creation of this content at least seem more like it was integrated into the user's experience instead of an administrator feature. Giving it a shot now, will see how it goes and report back. -Alex On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:08 PM, Arra Derderian <[email protected]>wrote: > Alex, > > Orchard Modules are not necessarily "Content Types" or "Content Parts". You > can create a new "Content Part" or "Content Type" module for Orchard, for > example a DateTime Field part or a Navigation content type but they are not > always "Types" or "Parts". > > The only out of the box way I could think of doing this quickly would be > create a new "Role" from the Users tab that just allows this role to edit > content types. This would then not allow these users to do anything else but > edit/add content types. You would need to overwrite the Orchard Core code > base to add permissions to the content types and parts as it is not out of > the box functionality. You could probably add some override view files in > your theme as well to check permissions on rendering as well. > > I am pretty new to Orchard but thought I could try and help :) > > Arra > > On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 11:27 AM, Alex Loret de Mola < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Hey Guys, >> >> Okay, so we're over here at Give Camp New England, working with a >> nonprofit called Project Warehouse, who's looking to basically provide a >> site that lets users: >> >> * Create pages for their humanitarian efforts >> * Let people search for said efforts by various mechanisms >> * "Follow" humanitarian efforts that have been posted by other users >> >> And other features that (to me) somewhat resemble Facebook Groups. >> >> The idea was brought up to try Orchard, and we've been giving it a go but >> we've been running into resistance: >> >> * Modules appear to have the end goal of creating "Content Parts" and >> "Content Types", but it looks like Content Types end up being creatable only >> through the Admin interface... which isn't useful if regular users of the >> site need to create these content types. >> >> * We need these content types to be "owned" by the users who create >> them... if I was wiring this up in straight-up MVC I would know exactly what >> to do, but trying to do it through the best practices of Orchard I'm at a >> loss. I don't see any documentation anywhere for an API to existing >> entities (such as user information)... I imagine I could manually wire up >> relationships between them theoretically, but I'm not quite sure how to do >> that without fundamentally breaking Orchard (and essentially "rolling my >> own" implementation and persistence mechanisms that happen to be sitting in >> the same URL path as Orchard and manually querying for data from Orchard's >> tables to make the relationships), but that feels like a terrible hack. >> >> So what is the "best practice" for this notion of regular (non-Admin) >> users being able to create this data? I appreciate any input you can >> provide, thanks! >> >> -Alex >> --- You are currently subscribed to orchard-discuss as: >> [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to >> [email protected]. > > > > > -- > Arra J. Derderian > President / Engineer > Cloud Construct, LLC > 617-201-6138 > www.cloudconstruct.com > > --- You are currently subscribed to orchard-discuss as: > [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to > [email protected]. > --- You are currently subscribed to orchard-discuss as: [email protected]. To unsubscribe send a blank email to [email protected].
