Permission Problem for Teacher role

whatif
Mon, 04/28/2014 - 02:55
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Hi I created a 'teacher' role and gave the role a permission to create and edit 'course' and 'video'. But when logged in as a teacher, teacher can create course but the link to create 'video' was not shown. The link to create 'video' was shown only after I gave permission like below. Organic groups: Administer Organic groups permissions I am not sure if this is normal or not. Why 'Administer Organic groups permissions' is needed to create 'video' on his own 'course'? Thanks in advance
wadmiraal
Mon, 04/28/2014 - 12:27

Hi whatif.

Hi whatif. This can be a bit confusing. I'll try to explain, let me know if I'm not clear. There are basically 2 "realms" of permissions (3 if you enable Classes): 1. Platform 2. Course Many "platform" permissions have an impact on all other realms (like "administer content" giving you access to all courses), but only to a certain point. If you give access to a user to *create videos* in the **platform** realm, she will be able to go to `/node/add/video` and create videos. However, **at this point she is not allowed to attach it to any course**. These videos will "float" in the system, accessible by all other users. This is useful for generic content, for example. If you want to give a user (or role) permissions in the **course** realm, you have to go to `/admin/config/group/permissions/node/course`. Here you can manage permissions for the Course realm (a similar interface exists for classes as well). If you give the permission *create video content* here, the user will see the "Create video" link you mentioned. Now, final part: why did giving *administer organic group permissions* trigger the display of the link ? This permission *has an impact on the course realm*. It basically tells OG: "This user can manager permissions, thus she has **all** rights inside this group". Including *create video content*. That's why the link showed up after you enabled this permission.