Site Building

7.7. Assigning Authors to Content for Drupal 8, 9, and 10

Goal

Assign Vendor content items Happy Farm and Sweet Honey to the corresponding Vendor user accounts, so they can edit their own Vendor profiles on the site.

Site prerequisites

Steps

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  1. In the Manage administrative menu, navigate to Content (admin/content).
  2. Find Vendor content item Happy Farm in the list. If it is not immediately visible, you can filter the list by Published status, Content type (Vendor), Title, or Language. Click Edit for the Vendor content item you would like to assign an author to.
  3. Under Authoring information, start typing the Vendor’s user name Happy Farm in the Authored by field. The field lists matching user names. Select the Vendor’s user name from the list.

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    Assigning an author to the Vendor content item

  4. Click Save.
  5. You will get a notification that the Vendor content item has been updated.

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    Vendor content item has been updated

  6. Follow these steps again to assign Vendor content item Sweet Honey to the Vendor user account Sweet Honey.