I'm having a configuration/usability issue with Umbraco members and setting permissions...

I have about 50 content managers for a website, divided into two types:

* news item editors
* Job item editors

Now of cource i only want them to be able to edit content in 2 specific locations (/jobs and /News), and exclude a few pages that they shouldn't be able to edit in these locations (newsoverviewpage & jobsoverviewpage).

I was hoping to be able to do this for a usertype, instead of individual users, but this doesn't seem possible?

Instead i'm being presented a popup that lists every single user of the website with horizontal & vertical scrollbars and a matrix of checkboxes that's beyond usable..

Usertypes don't even appear in this list, only users, but then every single individual user...

Does anyone have any recommendations on how i can make this workable? My content editors each need to have their own login & password.

Another issue that pops up is that once i have everything configured for the exisitng users, I need to perform all these steps (assign type, assign content location, assign media location, revoke permissions on pages they shouldn't be able to edit, ...) again for each user i add in the future... shouldn't the groups be able to take care of this?

Appreciating all feedback!

Rik

ps. how to ip update the permissions for all users in a certain group?

My current workflow:

create new user

define allowed sections (or get this vague error: "Error saving user (check log)". Also for some reason no other changes can be saved untill the sections are defined)

Assign group

save with new credentials 

set content and media area where they can work

Navigation to content section, right-click each of the pages they shouldn't be able to edit, and disallow permissions

exclude job/newsoverview and archive path from their permissions