Changable umbraco backend structure Options
Petr Snobelt
Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008 3:28:34 PM
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Hi,

I want to ask if it is possible (in any future version) to modify sections content.
Mainly modify settings section - I think DocumentTypes and Templates can be in developer section because:
- I want to allow my editors to work only with Content, Images, Stylesheets and optionally Scripts. I definitely don't want to allow him to change Templates or documentTypes.
- When I developing I must switching between developer and settings sections

If I would wish, I want to have ability to create structure as I need on concrete project.
or
Maybe I don't need Sections displayed at bottom and have it all (accessible) displayed in Tree and have ability to set Users access to specific treenode.

BTW: Thank you for 3.0.5 release

mortenbock
Posted: Friday, April 18, 2008 7:31:03 PM

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Definitely an interesting idea. I can see the point in being able to move the different parts of the sections in to other sections as needed. But I can also see the downside to it, as that would mean that when you log on to an umbraco solution, you can't be sure where to find for example the "stylesheet" part.

But I do agree that it would be nice to limit certain users access to for example document types or templates.

Another way around this could be to create a CSS editor dashboard control. That way you could control which stylesheet the user can edit, and they never have to leave the "content" section.

Just my 5 cents :-)

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hoehler
Posted: Saturday, April 19, 2008 3:08:26 PM

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If you want to do this globally just hack the database:
go to the umbracoAppTree table, select the entries with treeAlias = "datatype" and = "templates", , then change for these entries the values from the column appTree from "settings" to "developer".

Thomas

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mortenbock
Posted: Saturday, April 19, 2008 3:15:29 PM

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Hmmm...

Then it should be pretty easy to make a small dashboard control that could handle this for you?

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Petr Snobelt
Posted: Monday, April 21, 2008 9:35:53 AM
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Thanks for replays,
2 Morten Bock :

My idea was editor log in and see for example these mainnodes
- content
- stylesheet
- media

I don't understand downside of this.

2 Thomas:
Thank you for great tip.
mortenbock
Posted: Friday, May 02, 2008 9:37:57 AM

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Petr Snobelt wrote:
Thanks for replays,
2 Morten Bock :

My idea was editor log in and see for example these mainnodes
- content
- stylesheet
- media

I don't understand downside of this.


My primary concern was, that if another Umbraco user logs in to the application, and clicks the "settings" section, but can't find the stylesheets, then hem might get a bit confused :-)

But I see your point in gathering a few mainnodes in the content section for easy acces control.

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