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I am looking at implementing umbraco for our organization and one of the key requirements is having the ability to setup up groups and define custom roles to determine the level of access a user has on the admin side. Is there a way to do this in the current version of umbraco?
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Sam - There are Roles for Users in Umbraco (writer, editor, translator) and you may also find that the section-based rights model works well for a reasonably granular approach to permissions. Have a look in the Create User screen. -Paul
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Rank: Newbie
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Location: Lynchburg, VA
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Thanks for the quick reply- I'm quite the newbie here. I did see those roles and also looked at setting up the section based rights (you're talking about rights for a content node, right?).
I think the section based rights would work in most cases but we do have a website with an overly complex navigation structure divided among many different areas. I was hoping to find a way to define and customize rights for a group and set the permissions on numerous folders for the group. Thay way I wouldn't have to worry about each individual permission when adding a new user or moving an existing one to a different role.
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Currently, there aren't "real" roles in the users, only individual permission settings unfortunately. Permissions can be defined for "types" (ie editor, administrator, writer) but that's global initial permissions across nodes and not by section/node.
One way you could solve this, was a little utility that could transfer permissions from one user to another (by copying the contents of the umbracoUser2NodePermission. It could be a dashboard control in the users section where you could select one master user (who had the correct permissions) and then a checkbox list with the users who should have the same permissions schema applied. It's not as good as roles, but it would do the same job and wouldn't modify the source (so it would work with upgrades).
I know you're new to umbraco and this is a shameless plug, but we'd be happy to create such a utility if you were a Pro subscriber (http://umbraco.org/products/umbraco-pro) - we've made utilities like these for other subscribers too (not the exact same though).
Cheers,
Niels / umbraco
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