Im looking at building a website that users with the option of a 'user account'. users who have accounts get privileges that users without accounts dont have. for example if they go into the gallery page i want to display an 'add comment' button under each image if they are signed in. Ive not done this in umbraco before and im not sure what is the best way to do it. I also need to display all the users in the cms and be able to track what comments they have made and what products they selected as their 'favourite'.
In the terms of Umbraco by users you will mean members (basically extranet users which is what you are describing) users are CMS users who log into the backend. With regards to your issue, have a dig around the projects there are a couple of membership tools like log in forms etc. Also the umbraco api and the xslt extensions provide is member logged in functions so you could use those to display the add comment button.
With regards to tracking comments and favourties you will need to via your commenting and favourting macro create relations between members and content (do a dig for relations on the forum also there are some packages) the reporting tool you will have to build yourself using .net and display using a dashboard control.
User access and moderation in umbraco
Im looking at building a website that users with the option of a 'user account'. users who have accounts get privileges that users without accounts dont have. for example if they go into the gallery page i want to display an 'add comment' button under each image if they are signed in. Ive not done this in umbraco before and im not sure what is the best way to do it. I also need to display all the users in the cms and be able to track what comments they have made and what products they selected as their 'favourite'.
Phil,
In the terms of Umbraco by users you will mean members (basically extranet users which is what you are describing) users are CMS users who log into the backend. With regards to your issue, have a dig around the projects there are a couple of membership tools like log in forms etc. Also the umbraco api and the xslt extensions provide is member logged in functions so you could use those to display the add comment button.
With regards to tracking comments and favourties you will need to via your commenting and favourting macro create relations between members and content (do a dig for relations on the forum also there are some packages) the reporting tool you will have to build yourself using .net and display using a dashboard control.
Regards
Ismail
Also there's some videos on members here
http://umbraco.org/documentation/videos/for-site-builders/members
Rich
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