Question

This question concerns the user roles and permissions mechanisms in Drupal.

1. By default, Drupal provides the three roles. Give descriptions of what each of these three roles are for and the kind of permissions they would normally possess.
   6. marks)
2. Identify appropriate user roles for 'Mentoring Scheme' web application website and discuss each role. (Please refer to the case study at the end of the exam papers.)

3. The site-builder has defined three new content-types called 'mentor-info', 'meetings' and 'mentoring-termination' Discuss the possible reasons the sitebuilder defined these three new content types.
   6. marks)

Answer 1

Kindly provide the case study for b and c

Solution for a:

Three roles provided Drupal are:

• Anonymous: For those users who are not logged in.
• Authenticated: For those users who have account but the logs are authenticated.
• Administrator: The administrators can have all the privileges.

In order to make user account set up correctly, these steps are followed:

• Include a role.
• Create role permissions.
• Build a user.
• Test the user to make sure it has the correct permissions.