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when a user with no permission to publish is submitting a blank entry, the entry is saved anyway without any errors.
Here is the permissions set to the user group:
I have few required field as showed below:
And very sadly, the entry is saved as draft, entitled "New Entry":
This can't be a feature, is it?
As carlcs said, this is already working as expected. Craft only enforces content validation rules for enabled entries (not including drafts), and most people prefer that behavior.
If you want to change that behavior, you can write a plugin that provides its own entry validation logic, by latching onto the entries.onBeforeSaveEntry event. Just put this in your plugin’s primary class:
public function init()
{
craft()->on('entries.beforeSaveEntry', function(Event, $event) {
/** @var EntryModel $entry */
$entry = $event->params['entry'];
// If the entry is disabled, the content won't be validated automatically
if (!$entry->enabled)
{
$validates = craft()->content->validateContent($entry);
if (!$validates)
{
// Add the content validation errors
$entry->addErrors($entry->getContent()->getErrors());
// Prevent the entry from getting saved
$event->performAction = false;
}
}
});
}
As other answers have touched on, the behaviour you're seeing is by design.
I've written a plugin called Always Validate which will make Craft validate all disabled entries and categories – including entry drafts or entries saved by users not permitted to publish – which should solve your issue.
That's the idea behind Drafts, to store entries not yet ready to publish, unfinished ones so to speak.
I think it does make sense to not validate the fields. Good feature!
