Allow Group Members to Post Content

In this video we will allow group members to post content to the group.

Allow authenticated users to post content

You may have noticed that Chelsea does not have any way to post an article to the group. In order to allow her to do so, we first need to allow authenticated users to post articles to the site.

• Go to People > Permissions

Scroll down and grant the following permissions to Authenticated User:

• Article: Create new content
• Article: Edit own content
• Article: Delete own content
• Basic page: Create new content
• Basic page: Edit own content
• Basic page: Delete own content

Now when Chelsea views Group #2, you'll see that she can post an article to this group because she has the site-wide privilege of "Article: Create content" and she is a member of Group #2.

Let's create Chelsea's First Article

• In Group #2, under Content create links, click "Article"
• Title: Chelsea's First Article (Group)
• Body: (Lorem Ipsum)
• Groups audience: Group #2 (this is already selected because we chose to create the article from within the group)
• Group content visibility: Use group defaults
• (Save)

We're taken back to Group #2 and we see the article at the top of the list. When we view the article, you might notice that Chelsea doesn't have any way to edit or delete her article. This is because it is posted to group #2, and group #2s permissions say that articles can not be edited or deleted. I'll show you what it would look like if the article were not posted to a group.

• In Group #2, under Content create links, click "Article"
• Title: Chelsea's Second Article (No Group)
• Body: (Lorem Ipsum)
• Groups audience: none (Use Command-click on a Mac or Control-click on Windows to deselect Group #2)
• Group content visibility: Use group defaults
• (Save)

Now, immediately we see that "Chelsea's Second Article (No Group)" is not listed on the Group #2 page. That's good, because we told it not to. If I click Home, we do see it on the homepage. Now when we click on "Chelsea's Second Article (No Group)", you'll see an edit tab and when we click that, we see that she can make any edits she would like, or even delete the article.

Let's go back home and click on Chelsea's First Article. Here we see that she can not edit this article. This is because Group #2's permissions state that users may not edit nor delete articles they post to the group.

In the next video we will take a look at what those permissions are, and how we can change them.

It is worth noting that users with the site-wide permission to create an article, who are not members of Group #2, will see the link to create an article on the Group #2 homepage, but won't actually have the option to post that article to the group, instead it will act just like Chelsea's Second Article, and not be associated with the group.