Reviewer role: Permission to view unpublished pages?

[snck]

Hey there,

for a client website I need to implement a "reviewer" role. "Reviewers" should be able to review new (unpublished) articles to give feedback to editors, but not have the permission to change them. 

I built a new "reviewer" role that only has page-view permissions for the respective templates, but this permission does not include viewing unpublished pages. How can I grant them access to the unpublished articles without giving them page-edit permission?

Cheers,
Flo

[horst]

I think you have to hook into Page::viewable, then detect if user has role reviewer and page is unpublished. If yes, you can change the return to true. Please search for hook examples with Page::viewable here in the forums. There will be some available. 

Or you look into existing modules how it is done there, like this one: https://github.com/Sebiworld/PageAccessReleasetime/blob/master/PageAccessReleasetime.module.php#L182-L201
and here https://github.com/Sebiworld/PageAccessReleasetime/blob/master/PageAccessReleasetime.module.php#L241-L254

And you don't need to build a module, you can write the hook into the site/ready.php file.

[Jan Romero]

On 7/30/2020 at 5:34 PM, horst said:

And you don't need to build a module, you can write the hook into the site/ready.php file.

Apparently ready.php is too late for direct page views, so I would recommend init.php.