Drupal 7 Content Access Module - Daily Dose of Drupal Episode 14
Why Drupal Answers Stack Exchange recommends it
Drupal Answers users link it as a video tutorial alongside the Content Access module when someone needs to restrict viewing of content types by role.
Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2014 to 2016.
What it is
A short screencast from CodeKarate's Daily Dose of Drupal series showing how to install and configure the Drupal 7 Content Access module. It walks through limiting view access for content types so only authenticated users can see them and anonymous users cannot.
What people said
Recommends sam2de · 2015-08 · Drupal Answers Stack Exchange · on “Drupal 7, hook permission for view published content only for certain content type/blog”
You can use content_access [LINK] module, you can control any content type permissions individually. here is a nice video tutorial [this video]
Recommends No Sssweat · 2016-02 · Drupal Answers Stack Exchange · on “What is the simplest, most drupalish, way to restrict access to some content to authenticated users or a certain role?”
Content Access [LINK] This module allows you to manage permissions for content types by role and author. It allows you to specifiy custom view, edit and delete permissions for each content type. Optionally you can enable per content access settings, so you can customize the access for each content node. Video Tutorial [this video] Field Permissions [LINK] The Field Permissions module allows site administrators to set field-level permissions to edit, view and create fields on any entity. [LINK] Your views approach is fine, assuming everything you need is in the view. But if you want to restrict access to nodes, then you're better off using Content Access. For example: If your view was listing link
Cites Free Radical · 2014-05 · Drupal Answers Stack Exchange · on “Content type permission to specific users”
The core's built-in support for node access control is rather course, and to control a specific role's access to view a page, it is not enough to go to admin/people/permissions to set permissions, since there is only a global setting for " View published content " that apply to all published content. However. to give the permission to Create new content ( node/add ), there is no need for an extra module, since all other permissions, i.e. Create, Edit, Delete , is managed by the Drupal core and there are per-role settings in the built-in permissions interface. First, just to make sure content is visible, navigate to admin/people/permissions and make sure you have the permission View published
Cites No Sssweat · 2016-02 · Drupal Answers Stack Exchange · on “How to make a particular role user and their content not accessible/viewable to other users?”
Content Access [LINK] This module allows you to manage permissions for content types by role and author. It allows you to specifiy custom view, edit and delete permissions for each content type. Optionally you can enable per content access settings, so you can customize the access for each content node. Video Tutorial [this video] I think content access is only for content type nodes. So for the user page umm.... I can't think of anything of the top of my head. I will edit this if I can think of something. Perhaps the only solution is doing it with a custom module programmatically. If you use pathauto [LINK] you could make so the user page path is user/[user:role]/[user:name] then you could use P