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title: >
  What problem are we trying to solve?
pubDate: 2023-08-03
permalink: >-
  daily/2023/08/03/what-problem-are-we-trying-to-solve
tags:
  - drupal
---

The Override Node Options module that I said yesterday is used on 35,000 websites isn't a complicated module.

It doesn't add a lot of features.

It solves a problem by adding additional permissions to Drupal that site administrators can assign to user roles and not need to give a more global permission like "administer nodes".

The problem being solved is allowing users to set node options, like the created date or published status, in a secure way.

If it wasn't solving a problem, it wouldn't be used on 35,000 Drupal websites.