Hi folks

We have several Umbraco websites with a large number of back office users. These are for larger, multi-department, organisations. I'm not sure if we are missing something, or if there are some limitations with the current user management UI, but we are finding things tricky to manage once we get beyond 10 or 15 content editors. On one site, we have more than 20 back office editors at the moment and this may increase.

The main issues we are having are as follows:

1. User types allow us to define what can be done, but not where it can be done in the content tree. I.e., we can say that an "editor" has "Create" permissions, but we cannot limit that to a particular part of the content tree - e.g., the Human Resource department / HR content tree. Permissions governing where content can be created in the content tree cannot be set at a group level and must be set per individual user See and
2. If Default Permissions are changed on a user type , they do not cascade down to individual users - this makes it difficult to manage permissions at group level for large numbers of users, see and
3. There is no way to remove or hide old users - this is a particular problem for large organisations with employee churn. We really need a folder for "Deleted Users" or similar to keep them out of the way.
4. Ideally, we'd like to be able to see some reporting such as last login date for users

Are there any options for implementing more advanced user management, in particular, controlling content tree permissions via groups rather than at an individual user level? We find the matrix shown at Fig 4 is particularly difficult to manage when dealing with more than a few users.

Many thanks

Sam