I have a normal Drupal User. I have used the content_profile module to create a profile content type. This content type contains a node reference to another content type company. The company node then references a type of node called Task.
I want to create a view that list all the tasks for a given user id.
So I imagine I would create a view with an argument of user id. Then I would add the relationship to the profile and the company and output the Task title.
The user id used seems to work on the created used ID and not the user id of the content profile that it is referencing. In our system the "admin" user creates the profiles so it causing some problems.
Any ideas? I feel I may need to write a custom module to do what I want.
i have answered a similar question in the past about how to create a view using part of the url as an argument to filter the view by the user profile. check out this url. the answer you are looking for may be a variation of my original response.
also, how are you creating those profiles? on one of my sites, when i created the profile page, its author ID is automatically changed to the user it is associated with.
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I use Drupal 7 and would prefer to do so but if I need to use Drupal 6 I will. I have a Drupal 7 site that I allow "advisors" to create authenticated users. I am an admin on the site so I see and can do everything. All that an "advisor" can do is create and edit authenticated users. Is there a way to make a view that displays the users that the particular advisor has created while the advisor is logged in?
If you don't understand what I'm saying let me put it this way. I am the admin of the site so I can do everything. I created a user role called advisor. There's also an authenticated role for users. Advisors can create authenticated users. So I have Advisor 1. Advisor 1 created 10 users. I also have Advisor 2. Advisor 2 created 3 users. I'd like a page (more than likely built with views - and I've used views before on other sites so I'm familiar with them) - I'd like a page that Advisor 1 could go to once logged in and it would display all of the 10 users that they created. Advisor 1 wouldn't see the users that Advisor 2 create.
Is this possible? Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
I have implemented something similar and I can give you some guidelines.
First of all drupal 7 doesn't store the information of the creator of the users.
So, in order to track this you will need to attach a custom field to the user to keep this information.
In such case you ll have to make sure that every creator can insert only himself in this field and not anyone else or you 'll have to find an automated way to fill it in.
I suggest you use field permission module for setting permissions to this field (users probably should not even have view, creators should not be able to change it etc ) and computed field module for automatically populate the field (eg creator_field) upon creation for example with the uid of the creator.
Finally when creating the view you could add contextual filtering by using the logged in user on the creator_field.
You should also have a look at Organic Groups. I haven't use it but might be helpful
Hope it helps.
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Add
global $user;
$entity_field[0]['value'] = $user -> uid;
to the Computed Code (PHP) in the computed field settings and store the value as integer in "Database store settings". Then in your view you should add a view of user with contextual filter of creator_field. In the contextual filter settings you must set "provide default value" -> "User ID from logged in user" in the "WHEN THE FILTER VALUE IS NOT IN THE URL" section.
This could be done relatively easily in Drupal 7 by adding a field to the user profile that points back to the user creator (using the Entity Reference module). Profile2 could offer a shortcut to making this field available on a profile, though if this is the only customization that you need to add to your profiles, it would be cleaner to do this in a custom module.
A view (Views module) could be configured to output a list of users with the current logged in user as the creator.
You'll also need to add similar logic for user_access to allow/restrict profile editing (if the current user is the user referenced in the profile). A permissions hook also could be useful if you plan to have different admin levels.
The Tokens module should work to insert this value for the new user, by inserting the current user into the field. Or you can do this before the user is saved. It would go a little something like this:
function mymodule_user_presave(&$edit, $account, $category) {
if ($account->is_new) {
global $user;
$created_by = $user->uid;
$edit['created_by'] = $created_by;
}
}
Good luck.
I've 3 types of users:
Author
Reader
Site Admin
What I've done so far?:
I've created Content Type named Book. Authorscreate account on my site & login & then add the information about the books they authored. I've a View with page-display named books which lists all the books which can be seen even by Anonymous user.
What do I need?
Reader should be able to pick 'x' no. of books from the this view. The no. of books a Reader can pick depends on his level Voracious Reader, Moderate Reader, Occasional Reader.
After Reader choosing Book(s), Site Admin will be see the list of books picked by all Readers.
He'll then ship the book to their address (offline) & update the status as "Shipped".
of course Readers should be able to see the list of all the books they've chosen along with its status.
How do I accomplish the rest?
Install the field collection module.
Create a new field_collection field on the user profile called "ordered books".
Edit your "ordered books" field collection and add 2 fields:
1 called book - this will be an entity reference to your books
content type. You will need the entity reference module for
this.
1 called status. This can be a list with values of "ordered" and
"sent".
Now when users edit their profile then can select which books they want.
You will need to disable the status field at this point to lock it to ordered. (Use hook_form_alter).
Then also using hook_form_alter in a custom module add some extra validation to the user profile form.
In your new validation function check what sort of user is submitting the form (Voracious, Moderate or Occasional) and how many books they have selected and raise any errors as appropriate.
When a user looks back at their profile they will see a list of books and their statuses.
You may want to look into creating a new node type called "orders" or something. This could have an entity reference to the user, and entity references to books. That way you could have a status for the order a a whole as well as the separate books, but this is just an idea - you may not need it.
Is it possible in Drupal to find out which user modified a particular field? Not just the whole node. After saving the content I want to display the author name next to that field.
Not sure if this is possible or not.
This is not provided by Drupal core, and (As far as I know) it is not provided by any contributed modules on drupal.org.
So, in order to do that, you would probably need to create a custom module.
A simple module to achieve that would have a database table with (nid, uid, current field value) and hook_node_presave implementation (compare field values, then update/insert/ignore saving new data to your database table).
I have created a content type called "Event". For each event, I would like to be able to specify contacts (people in charge of organising).
Therefore I would like to add a field "Contact" to the Event type, where a widget would give access to the list of users. One could then pick one or several users.
This field would be displayed as a list of links to the profiles of those users.
I seem to remember there was a module providing that widget in Drupal 6, but I am now using Drupal 7, and haven't been able to find the necessary module!
Thanks!
(NB: I'm not using the Event module, but Date + Calendar.)
Here are two possible options you can check out:
Entity Reference module - can reference user entities
Provides a field type that can reference arbitrary entities
Relation module
Relation is an API module and storage model for both simple and the
most complex relations between entities. The module can handle both
directional and symmetrical relations very well.
What I am trying to do here is controlling how a group of fields are showing up on node view. I don't want to control them by user role, as this is going to be a node level permission and I don't want these permissions affect other nodes with the same content type.
For example imagine I have three different roles: ROLEA, ROLEB and ROLEC. Each role has it's own permissions set for accessing to fields. When a node is created for the first time, a user with role of ROLEA, can see couple of fields and can edit the value of those fields. When node is published, a rule/action get called through Rules module, and will set a status field in that node to STAGE1. After this event (a new node created), if user (ROLEA) goes to that node that was just created by herself, those fields that were editable before, should be read-only now. This means when Rules module, set the value of the status field to STAGE1, when that node wants to get loaded by Drupal, we need to check the status value, and based on that if it was for example STAGE1, modify some other field in that particular node, read only or editable, or in some cases hide them from user. So my guess is to create a module that every time a node of that type, is loading, check the status field (which is a field that we have created in that node type) and based on the value of that field, decide which node should show up or hide. This should override the permission that have been set for those fields on that particular node type.
What I am trying to do is creating a method to control which field is going to be read only /editable / hidden based on the value of a specific field in that content type, which has been set by Roules module, based on different stages of working on that node by different group of users. I am not using Organic Group. I use Drupal 7 and Rules module and couple of other permission related modules. But I found that there is no such a way to handle field visibility in node level, separate from user roles.
Do you think there is any other way to achieve the same result? I appreciate if you could give me an idea about how to create such a module.
I really appreciate any and all input.
You can create a module and add a hook on node form using : hook_form_alter or hook_form_FORM_ID_alter
Using this kind of hook, you can easily modify node form and hide or make read only specific fields, based on whatever you want (user role, field value...)
There are also the hook_node_view_alter() hook and hook_entity_view_alter() hooks that allow you to modify the render array for a node before it is rendered. There you can set field arrays to have '#access' = FALSE so they are hidden, or '#access' = TRUE to show them.
I'm using this to hide some fields if the date in another field of the node has a time in the past (it's a "subscription expires" field). So I didn't need to change the edit form, just the field display.