Hi,

I am having a bit of trouble working out how to allow Content Authors to create, edit, publish and delete records through the Gridfield.

In Silverstripe 2.4 I just used to add the following code to the dataobject that was being managed through a complex table field for example but this doesn't seem to work for the Gridfield in 3.0:

function canEdit() { return true; }
function canDelete() { return true; }
function canCreate() { return true; }
function canPublish() { return true; }

I am sure I am missing something simple so would be grateful if anyone could point me in the right direction.

Cheers,

Jim

[bold]Edit[/bold]

I was right I just missed out something really obvious. Just needed to add canView. This is what I ended up using for information:

function canEdit($member = null)
{
return true;
}
function canDelete($member = null)
{
return true;
}
function canCreate($member = null)
{
return true;
}
function canPublish($member = null)
{
return true;
}
function canView($member = null)
{
return true;
}

Thanks for this James - really helpful!

And, just so that others don't make the same mistake - don't include the canPublish() permission, as that seems to be just on SiteTree and when I included this it mucked things up for me.

Just for reference, the way I usually do this is:

/**
 * @return boolean
 */
public function canView($member = null) {
	return Permission::check('CMS_ACCESS_CMSMain');
}

/**
 * @return boolean
 */
public function canCreate($member = null) {
	return Permission::check('CMS_ACCESS_CMSMain');
}

/**
 * @return boolean
 */
public function canEdit($member=null) {
	return Permission::check('CMS_ACCESS_CMSMain');
}

/**
 * @return boolean
 */
public function canDelete($member = null) {
	return Permission::check('CMS_ACCESS_CMSMain');
}

Thanks for this answer and thanks for using a descriptive subject line. After searching Google and Silvertripe.org with variations including "content editors" and "dataextension" I was about to start a separate topic. Fortunately I saw this in the topic list first.