Advanced permissions system with Groups
Jan Zavrl
Drupal Camp London, March 2020
Jan Zavrl
Full stack developer
Senior Drupal developer at NDP
Acquia certified Drupal 8 Grand Master
@jnzavrl | jzavrl | janzavrl.me
@ndp_studio | ndp-studio.com
Advanced permissions system with Groups, London, March 2020
Some background first
- Permission system based on various factors outside of the core permissions
- Several types of entities, several roles and permissions in different context
Advanced permissions system with Groups, London, March 2020
Advanced permissions system with Groups, London, March 2020
User
User
User
Entity
Entity
Entity
Entity
Entity
Entity
Group
Group
Group
Supervisor
Supervisor
Editor
Editor
But, Groups has that built in?
Advanced permissions system with Groups, London, March 2020
One step at a
time
- Being able to set entity type level permissions in Groups
- Entity level access
- List level access
- Special cases
- Managing all components
Advanced permissions system with Groups, London, March 2020
Allowing new entities in Groups
- Using GroupContentEnabler plugin
- Providing a system to easily add new entities
Advanced permissions system with Groups, London, March 2020
Entity level
access
- View, update and delete actions on entities
- Overriding the existing Access Control Handlers
Advanced permissions system with Groups, London, March 2020
List level
access
- Entity level access would prevent from viewing
- Queries need to be altered to remove the unaccessible entities all together
Advanced permissions system with Groups, London, March 2020
There will always be special cases
- Allow or special cases in permission logic
- Allow other modules to implement their special cases
- Custom plugin manager and type
Advanced permissions system with Groups, London, March 2020
One manager to rule them all
- Service manager to manage all components and logic
Advanced permissions system with Groups, London, March 2020
Putting everything together
Advanced permissions system with Groups, London, March 2020
@jnzavrl | jzavrl | janzavrl.me
@ndp_studio | ndp-studio.com
Questions, comments?
Feel free to give me a nudge outside.
Thank you
Advanced permissions system with Groups, London, March 2020
Advanced permissions system with Groups
By Jan Zavrl
Advanced permissions system with Groups
While working on rebuilding a Royal College platform in the United Kingdom, we were tasked with a challenge on how to manage permissions where Groups played a major role in granting the correct access.
