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Enable editing for anonymous users under certain conditions

by Mikko Ohtamaa — last modified Dec 06, 2009 09:27 PM
Sometimes due to convenience it is necessary allow content editing for anonymous users. One use case is allow anonymous review and feedback in certain workflow states. This how to explains how this can be achieved.

Purpose

This how to explains how to use borg.localroles adapter to grant edit role for anonymous site visitors under certain conditions. Since borg.localroles is not included until Plone 3.1 prior versions cannot utilize this approach.

Prerequisities

  • Understanding Zope 3 views
  • Understanding Zope 3 adapters

Step by step

  1. Create local role provider
  2. Register it
  3. Hack around rendering problems when we are not yet hit our local role provider

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