Userreference Access module development notes

The genesis is in Michelle's request for a userreference access module which we called a node authors module in the notes over there.

ben-agaric: OK, on userfield access module-- is any node access module in use?
[10:01pm] ben-agaric: Or are we talking about editing rights primarily?
[10:01pm] ben-agaric: (and by primarily i mean solely )
[10:02pm] Michelle: Editing and viewing. Sorry, forgot about that part until just now (haven't looked at this stuff in a monht)
[10:04pm] Michelle: What the usecase is, is a person wants an appraisal so they click a link on the appraiser's profile that takes them to a form they fill out with their info. This appraisal request can only be seen by the requester, the appraiser it's being requested of, and admins
[10:04pm] Michelle: The appraiser should be able to view/edit/delete just the same as the user requesting the appraisal
[10:04pm] Michelle: Does that make any sense?
[10:09pm] ben-agaric: Yes, this should be a very, very common use case.
[10:11pm] ben-agaric: But no matter what I search for I get my own notes from a month ago, or links to my relativity_access module!
[10:11pm] Michelle: I thought it would make a good general module. I wrote my part to be as generic as I could as they said they're willing to release it
[10:13pm] Michelle: I'm not aware of any existing module that does this, but there's so many modules these days
ben-agaric: OK, based on http://api.drupal.org/api/function/node_access/5 the one difference between the kind of access we can grant through node_access_grants and what content authors have is that unpublished nodes (status = 0) won't be viewable by our userreference folks.
[10:33pm] Michelle: I don't think that's a problem for this

Later update:

Sadly, copy-paste loses all the smileys ;-)

Michelle: ben-agaric - Speaking of modules...
[09:42am] ben-agaric: Hi Michelle, in the testing stage i think/hope
[09:43am] Michelle: Cool
[09:43am] ben-agaric: I've got a few things I have to do first-- do you want it untested
[09:44am] Michelle: I won't be able to get to it this weekend... So maybe see where it's at early next week? If still untested, I can always test it, too
[09:44am] ben-agaric: i'll have it tested by then
[09:45am] ben-agaric: working on node access control makes one uncertain of which way gravity pulls
[09:45am] Michelle: LOL
[09:46am] Michelle: I haven't tried it... I was about to when you piped up and said you were going to write this module that just happened to be exactly what I need. LOL
[09:46am] ben-agaric: the main question on this module though is whether it will override view access control (which we don't want it to have anything to do with)
[09:46am] ben-agaric: but if you're not using any access control modules that won't matter at all
[09:47am] Michelle: Well, it would be ok by me if it did... I need to hide it from view. But I can try and add that myself if you don't want to do that part

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