User permissions setup

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Hi There,

Thanks for the reply, The error comes up as the user doesnt have pubish rights. We are trying to set it up so contributers can create content and submit it for review and was wondering if this is possible with pods roles and capabilities

What content type are these Pods? Also, are you using the roles and capabilities component? If so, what capabilities are you assigning to this role?

We are using the roles and capabilities component yes. The content is pretty kmuch all custom post types. Ive assigned the contributor the following capabilities:

edit_posts
edit_pages
delete_posts
read
edit_files
edit_published_pages
edit_published_posts

Im guessing im missing something to get them to be able to submit content rather than publish it on the site..

Since you’re using custom post types, I don’t think you need to edit roles. Custom post types follow regular post roles. So if you assign users to the contributor role than those users will be able to submit, but not publish posts.

The only thing that doesn’t cover is editing posts they wrote and have been published. See this article for how to handle that:
https://justintadlock.com/archives/2010/07/10/meta-capabilities-for-custom-post-types

HI Again,

Managed to solve the issue. It turns out that a plugin we had for running polls on the site was causing caching problems, meaning people submitting content for review got the white page of death.

In other news Ive used a plugin called revisionary to allow users to submit changes to content for review and then schedule them for future publishing.

A win all round. Thanks for your posts!

Glad to help. Let us know if you ever need any additional help with Pods.