Fremantle
Very often one wants to add a link to a View’s header or footer that allows users with permission to quickly jump to the relevant content creation form.
It’s easy to create a Global: Text area with the link, but this would then be seen by all users, regardless of authorization.
A few people have had similar thoughts.
I don’t know if there’s a better way (i.e. probably one that doesn’t involve PHP, not because this is a particularly complicated way of doing things but just that I always figure that Drupal should be usable by non-coders), but here’s how I’ve got it working:—
Required modules: views, views_ui, and php.
Add a Global: Text area header to a view, and select the PHP code text format for it. The code is as follows:
<?php if (user_access('create article content')): ?>
<a href="<?=url('node/add/article')?>" class="btn btn-default">Add new article</a>
<?php endif ?>