Is it possible to have writers only edit their own content?
Hello, I have a question about user permissions in Umbraco 4.0.2.1. I have a customer requirement to set up the following permissions:
- Authors can create and edit their own content, but cannot publish content or view other draft content. Authors cannot modify the site structure in any way.
- Editors have the same facilities as Authors, but can also view and edit multiple Authors’ content under their control and can publish content
- Editors can appoint and remove Authors. Editors can control the site structure only within their area of responsibility
- Webmasters are systems administrators, have the same facilities as Editors, but can view, edit, delete or move any content, have full editing control over the site structure and can appoint, edit the publishing rights of and delete any Authors or Editors
Can anyone give me some advice on where to start implementing this and an idea of how much work it might be? I'm not afraid of writing code I just need to know whether we're talking days weeks or months and what I might break in the process.
- Authors can create and edit their own content, but cannot publish content or view other draft content. Authors cannot modify the site structure in any way. Yes you can set the permisions so that they can save and send the content to send to publish so it goes to the editor to approve it. In Umbraco go to Users --> User Types and you can change the permissions per group.
- Editors have the same facilities as Authors, but can also view and edit multiple Authors’ content under their control and can publish content Same as above just add/remove the permissions.
- Editors can appoint and remove Authors. You can give the users access to the "users" section so they can add new users.
-Editors can control the site structure only within their area of responsibility Not sure but think it can be set in the users content channel by specifing the content area
-Webmasters are systems administrators, have the same facilities as Editors, but can view, edit, delete or move any content, have full editing control over the site structure and can appoint, edit the publishing rights of and delete any Authors or Editors Same as the first 2 just assigning them more permissions in the User Types and you can change the permissions in the groups.
On a user, you can select at content starting point. So if an editor should only edit his own are, then you could set the top node of that area as his start node.
The same could be done for authors, however you would have to create a separate node for each auther, which I guess is less than ideal.
Another approach could be to let authors create content everywhere, and then use the OnBeforeSave and similar events to check if the current user should be allowede to save/publish changes to the document.
Is it possible to have writers only edit their own content?
Hello, I have a question about user permissions in Umbraco 4.0.2.1. I have a customer requirement to set up the following permissions:
- Authors can create and edit their own content, but cannot publish content or view other draft content. Authors cannot modify the site structure in any way.
- Editors have the same facilities as Authors, but can also view and edit multiple Authors’ content under their control and can publish content
- Editors can appoint and remove Authors. Editors can control the site structure only within their area of responsibility
- Webmasters are systems administrators, have the same facilities as Editors, but can view, edit, delete or move any content, have full editing control over the site structure and can appoint, edit the publishing rights of and delete any Authors or Editors
Can anyone give me some advice on where to start implementing this and an idea of how much work it might be? I'm not afraid of writing code I just need to know whether we're talking days weeks or months and what I might break in the process.
Thanks
Rupert
HI Rupert,
I think this may help.
- Authors can create and edit their own content, but cannot publish content or view other draft content. Authors cannot modify the site structure in any way.
Yes you can set the permisions so that they can save and send the content to send to publish so it goes to the editor to approve it. In Umbraco go to Users --> User Types and you can change the permissions per group.
- Editors have the same facilities as Authors, but can also view and edit multiple Authors’ content under their control and can publish content
Same as above just add/remove the permissions.
- Editors can appoint and remove Authors.
You can give the users access to the "users" section so they can add new users.
-Editors can control the site structure only within their area of responsibility
Not sure but think it can be set in the users content channel by specifing the content area
-Webmasters are systems administrators, have the same facilities as Editors, but can view, edit, delete or move any content, have full editing control over the site structure and can appoint, edit the publishing rights of and delete any Authors or Editors
Same as the first 2 just assigning them more permissions in the User Types and you can change the permissions in the groups.
Hope that helps
Tom
On a user, you can select at content starting point. So if an editor should only edit his own are, then you could set the top node of that area as his start node.
The same could be done for authors, however you would have to create a separate node for each auther, which I guess is less than ideal.
Another approach could be to let authors create content everywhere, and then use the OnBeforeSave and similar events to check if the current user should be allowede to save/publish changes to the document.
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