Hi Everyone!

I hope to pool some recommendations and direction for a project I'm using Umbraco for. This project requires me to give access to many content authors. These content authors may have different responsibilities and levels of permission of the site that the current permission scheme in Umbraco doesn't support OOTB.

Let me first discuss the types of content that is being managed within this Umbraco install:

1. Core data models - which you can think of in terms of individual products, companies that make them, categories they may fit in. Each of these "models" is a document type and each model has a content node (1 to 1).

2. Article submissions - I want authors on the site to create their content within Umbraco, but they shouldn't be able to access (even view) another authors content and media nodes.

3. Wiki content - There are also areas where people should be able to jump in and help edit content collaboratively. In these cases, content and media nodes should be locked down to a collection of users.

I face a couple of issues achieving this within the CMS right now:

• When authors are writing content such as articles they should have a unique folder specific to them. I'm fine with setting this up manually per author - I expect that. But Umbraco doesn't allow me to set multiple root nodes so this is actually impossible due to other requirements. Another viable option is to set special permissions on a content node so that users can only see content they create by default.
• For Wikis - I think it would best to lock each wiki individually by user type - and then use the user type to set permissions on each wiki individually. I expect some manual process here - but again Umbraco doesn't allow this either. Allowing a 1-to-many correlation between users and user types would make this possible. A package already exists for locking content nodes down by user types. This would need to be expanded to the media tree.
• Keeping the media center effectively organized is challenging under this model. With so many authors and types of content I'll need to make sure new media is kept cleanly organized. When setting up media pickers, for example, within the doc type, there is no way to tell Umbraco that the root media node for uploaded images should match the content node structure. Doing this would make it very easy to keep the media center organized. You can either choose an image that exists somewhere, or newly uplaoded images must be put in a folder resembling the structure of the content node you are in.

Anyways, I feel like there are couple of other issues or suggestions I could put here but I'm most interested in hearing from the Umbraco community about your own trials and tribulations with locking down content and media against many authors.

Thanks for your help!

Mark