Hi everyone,
Could someone point me to information on how I can grant users/groups access to specific content types?
We have created a page folder per department and I want to grant users/groups that represent a department the right to add a news or event content type only. Nothing else.
The easiest and cleanest way would be to create two separate dexterity containers or folders. One for news and the other for events. Then share those folders to their respective contributor groups.
You can get away with creating only one dexterity container type and use workflow states such as "News Only" or "Events Only". In your workflow, you will need to add your user group, the add permission of news and event, and map the roles and permission appropriately for the particular state.
Using the same technique as above, you can use one folder if you map the add news permission to the contributor role then the add events permission to the editor role (it is not intuitive to use this role but it will work). Then set the role of your news group as contributor then the events group as editors.