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[Resolved] Grant edit capabilities to users of different roles to specific posts

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#426443

Hi

I am using the whole toolset. What I am trying to do is grant edit access to certain users (that belong to different roles) to some posts. For example suppose we have a custom post called "Manuscript 1". This post has an author who naturally has read/write access. At the same time there are others users, that have different sets of roles and capabilities, that have edit access only to this post but no other. Some other users may have edit access to only to another custom "Manuscript 2". The problem is that there are a lot of different custom posts for which this process has to be done. Also this has to be done in the front-end. There will be certain users that are not admins that should be able to grant this kind of access to others but their other editing capabilities(role) should be restricted.

Thanks

#426530

Dear michel,

1) in admin side, there isn't such a feature with in Access plugin, please check our document:
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/setting-access-control/
You can use Access to control the admin privileges of custom post type depends on user role , but there isn't such a feature that "have edit access only to this post but no other"

2) In the front-end, you can use Views shortcode [wpv-conditional] to check if current user is the specific user, then display some content(CRED form for editing the post), see our document:
https://toolset.com/documentation/views-shortcodes/#wpv-conditional

#430818

Hi,

Thanks for your reply. We are actually trying to combine Access and our own code development to achieve this.

In essence, we would like to build our own set of functions and shortcodes to read write and define Access post groups and groups of users who have access to these post groups. We need this because we can not use the admin panel of Access but would like to use all the other features of Access ant its connectivity with all the toolset plugins.

Thank you very much for your help!
Michel

#431058

Since there isn't such a built-in feature within Access plugin, can we take it as a feature request?
If you need integrate your own custom plugins/codes with Access plugin, here is a document about:
Letting Access Control Privileges for Other Plugins
https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/letting-access-control-privileges-for-other-plugins/
Hope it help

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