filter criteria: current users role

Question

I am using views to show some published content. I would like to give users with the role preview the ability to see all content within the view – published and unpublished. So they can preview how the page would look like after publishing content. My thoughts: I need to add a filter-criteria:

Published (=Yes)

 OR

Current-User-Role (=preview)

Ideas?

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edit #1: to make it easier, I could also allow to see the content for all authenticated users.

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edit #2: I have about 15 views where I need the preview functionality. they have different structure (filter criteria, viewmode, context etc) that means I need to keep it flexible. means probably that I need to define a filter and validate the data in the template.php

Answer 1

As said in the comment: If you want to give user access to unpublished content you can have a look at view_unpublished

You can also try to use this in combination with the 'Content: Published or admin' filter, but I didn't have a change to try it.

A filter like you're describing can be a good addition to views, consider creating an issue for it.

Answer 2

If I understand well your question, I think that you can use the Access > Permissions > Access restrictions settings in your view, to limit view results to only users inside respective role.

Update: If your are needing allow to the same view shows only content of views according user's roles, you can install Content Access module http://drupal.org/project/content_access. Then the same View will only show to the user the content that he can see, according settings in each Content Type > Access Control tab. (Note: Maybe the module will require rebuilding content access permissions before you see changes)

Maybe will be useful see other alternative of module to control access to content, like ACL http://drupal.org/project/acl, but I have no experience with that module.

I hope information be useful.

Answer 3

You could do one thing for a temporary fix quick. Create two views separately and use some logic while rendering it at the theme layer. I could help here if you are interested in the hack.

Answer 4

Views has a filter option for Content: Published or admin. It will show unpublished content to users that have permissions to see it. Choosing that as the filter rather than Content: Published should automatically show unpublished content in line with the published as long as the user has the permissions to view the unpublished content.

Answer 5

The View Published or Roles module does just that.

Answer 6

You could write a custom module to implement

1. a new permission view unpublished content
2. check if the connected user has the permission to view the content if unpublished when processing the view

In your CUSTOM.module file :

/**
 * Implements hook_permission().
 */
function CUSTOM_permission() {
    return array(
    'view unpublish content' => array(
    'title' => t('View unpublished content'),
    ),  
  );
}

/**
 * Implement hook_preprocess().
 */
function CUSTOM_preprocess(&$variables, $hook) {
    global $user;
    if ($hook == 'views_view_unformatted') {
        $view = $variables['view'];
        if ($view->name == 'THE_MACHINE_NAME_OF_YOUR_VIEW'){
            foreach ($variables['rows'] as $key => $row) {
                $result = $view->result[$key];
                $node = node_load($result->node_nid);
                if ( $node->status == '1' || ( user_access('view unpublish content') && $node->status == '0' ) ){
                    $variables['rows'][$key] = render(node_view($node, 'teaser')); // or render it full if you prefer
                }else{
                    unset($variables['rows'][$key]);
                }
            }
        }
    }
}

You install your CUSTOM module Then you give this permission to your specific role And set the view to display content without filter on node status

Hope that helps :)

Answer 7

In Drupal 7 (any Views 3.x?) you can and/or filters together.

[my filters] AND user has this role OR node is published

otherwise I wonder if something like Workflow could cut it.