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nielsrobin

Posted: Wednesday, September 10, 2008 3:31:00 PM

Rank: Newbie

Joined: 9/10/2008
Posts: 3
Location: copenhagen

Hi,

I'm pretty new to umbraco, i've been trying to use umbraco for a multi-portal solution. The idea is that i have different starting nodes for each country, but the same node structure within each.

e.g.

Code:

usa
- downloads
- images
- videos

england
- downloads
- images
- videos

all this works great, but i run into an issue when considering the user-rights. i want the "usa admin" to be able to look at "england" and copy over any images, videos, articles etc. over to his node tree. But i don't want him to be able to edit/remove anything in the "england" node, only copy.

Has far as i can see, i can limit the user to a certain node and/or rights (writing, reviewing, etc.) But i can't give him "Read all" and "write some" (only write in "usa node").

Am i right in this conclusion or have i missed something?
If i am, what are my options?

nielsrobin

Posted: Friday, September 12, 2008 3:32:35 PM

Rank: Newbie

Joined: 9/10/2008
Posts: 3
Location: copenhagen

is it because noone understands my question, that i'm not getting any responses?

basically right now, as far as i can see, Umbraco has a 1-1 mapping between the user and his rights.

eg.

User can only browse node "x" and subnotes and is a writer.

Where as what i need is:

User can browse node "y" and subnotes as Writer and browse all other nodes as Reader.

So i need a 1-many mapping between the user and his rights

eg.

User one is Writer in node "y" and Reader in node "x"

does that explain my problem?

imayat12

Posted: Friday, September 12, 2008 3:57:34 PM

Rank: Addict

Joined: 7/19/2006
Posts: 671
Location: Preston, UK

you can set futher granular permissions on a per user basis by right clicking a node and clicking on permissions although i dont think you will be able to cover all bases.

Regards

Ismail

Level 2 certified. If it aint broke dont fix.

nielsrobin

Posted: Friday, September 12, 2008 4:58:08 PM

Rank: Newbie

Joined: 9/10/2008
Posts: 3
Location: copenhagen

First of all, thanks Ismail, this got me looking in the right direction.

So now i've created a user that has minimal privileages (only allowing copy and update), and then edit his permissions on a specific node to allow more there. This works perfectly, only there's a catch.

I really only want to allow copying and not updating on the other nodes, but when i remove the "update" option from permissions, the whole node disappears. I guess the logic is, hey, if you can't update then you shouldn't see it, but thats not to good if i still want to copy it.

Any thoughts on this?

imayat12

Posted: Friday, September 12, 2008 5:34:06 PM

Rank: Addict

Joined: 7/19/2006
Posts: 671
Location: Preston, UK

Niels,

More a question for core team, is there a way of changing some of the crud properties in the db to acheive Niels's goal?

Hopefully someone will answer yea!!

Regards

Ismail

Level 2 certified. If it aint broke dont fix.

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