Talking Drupal #414 - Future of Web Content

Today we are talking about The Future of Content Management, What
we see for Drupal in the future, and How AI might factor in with
guest John Doyle. We’ll also cover Access Policy as our module of
the week.


For show notes visit:
www.talkingDrupal.com/414
Topics

Digital Polygon

Content Management can mean many things, what is our
definition

What factors contribute to the changes moving to a more
centralized model

How do organizations manage content for different channels

Where do design systems collide with content management

Why is Drupal a good fit

How does headless fit in

Maintaining content architecture long term

Drupal adaptations over the next 5 years

Resources

Talking Drupal #409 - Data Lakes

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Flexible Permissions

Guests

John Doyle - digitalpolygon.com _doyle_
Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan
John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi
Andy Blum - andy-blum.com - andy_blum
MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - @mandclu
Access Policy


Brief description:

Does your Drupal site need a flexible way to manage
access to content? There’s a module for that!



Brief history

How old: created in Nov 2022

Versions available: 1.0.0-beta1, works with D9 and 10



Maintainership

Actively maintained, most recent release was in the past
week



Number of open issues:

4, none of which are bugs



Test coverage

Usage stats:

12 sites



Maintainer(s):

partdigital



Module features and usage

Allows a site builder to define different policies that
can be used to manage content access or editing capabilities
based on various factors, all within the Drupal UI

Criteria can include field values of the content, field
values on the current user’s profile, the time of day, and
more

The policy can restrict access, for example view acces to
only selected people or people with a certain role or field
value on their profile. I

Once defined, policies can be assigned manually, or
automatically applied based on configurable selection
criteria

The project page describes this as an Attribute Based
Access Control (ABAC) architecture, which complements Drupal
core’s Role Based Access Control that our listeners are
probably familiar with

I used it for the first recently, and found that given
the power and flexibility the module provides, it’s great
that it has in-depth documentation

I filed a couple of issues (technically half of the open
issues) and partdigital was very responsive

The module does also provide an API for defining your own
policy type, access rules, rule widgets, and more. So if you
need a setup even more custom that what Access Policy can
provide out of the box, it’s likely you can extend it to meet
your individual use case