Could I limit media publishing to a hand-chosen set of accounts?

[dogweather]

Hi, Everyone. MediaCMS looks amazing. Would it work for my scenario—a platform for a particular set of journalists—with two user roles:

Everyone: They can comment, create favorite lists, share existing posts & download media.
Journalists: All of the above plus create new public media posts.

In a nutshell, new media files can only be published by Journalists. Everyone accounts can't publish new videos / photos. Their UGC (user generated content) is limited to commenting and lists.

It looks like the schools, education scenario could suit my needs.

Thanks in advance.

[mgogoulos]

Yes, that can work with very modifications.

There is a field for logged in users that now shows as Advanced user on the user profile - you could easily change that to show as something else (as Journalist in this case). So that way you can mark accounts as Journalists.

Then you edit cms/settings.py and add

CAN_ADD_MEDIA = "advancedUser"

so that only users with that setting can add medid. There are other 1-2 changes that you can perform to make it look better (eg when a non Journalist visit the upload form, they see a text describing why they can't add