Multiple Authorship Nodes

Created on 30 November 2011, over 13 years ago
Updated 1 August 2023, almost 2 years ago

There is a real need for multiple authorship to be built into Drupal at a system level. Collaboration is a fact of life in business and education, but Drupal doesn't recognize that more than one user could be the author of a single node. By making this possible (multi-author nodes) it would simplify a lot of tasks relating to workflows, content viewing and editing permissions, etc.

Use Case Example:
I use drupal as a LMS. Currently, I like to display grades using a field that is only displayed when the user viewing a given node is the author. When students collaborate, they are unable to see their grade unless they each post a duplicate post. With multiple authors per node, I could use the existing filter in Views and show the grade field to all authors of the document instead of just the one.

✨ Feature request
Status

Postponed: needs info

Version

9.5

Component
Node systemΒ  β†’

Last updated about 19 hours ago

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πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States Vidus

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  • πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈUnited States smustgrave

    This sounds like a good contrib module but not sure for core.

    And as mentioned revisions may cover this scenario

    Thoughts?

  • πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§United Kingdom longwave UK

    This is solvable with an entity reference field where multiple users can be selected, and I've done this on a number of customer projects. I still think it's important for the existing node author field to point to a single user - after all only one person can actually submit the node form, and it's useful to record who that was.

  • Status changed to Closed: works as designed 4 months ago
  • πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊAustralia acbramley

    Yeah we can't change this for the Node base field.

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