Membership / User options Options
Piquet
Posted: Friday, July 04, 2008 1:19:59 AM
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Joined: 6/6/2008
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Location: Australia
I need to go live with a project in the next 8-10 weeks with a CMS fronting a web application. The application has a large number of business rules. There will be members with different roles and access for the front end of the site, and users at the backend with different roles also. I'm looking for options and way forward.

I'm thinking of using a folder in the Umbraco site called /Administration, and just passing straight through to that, but I'd really like the authentication for users and members to be shared.

Is it possible to share authentication between the CMS and the web application?

Is it feasible to write another application to sit in Umbraco and be accessible via different roles with different security requirements? (ie - can I have additional types of User - as opposed to members)

I'm open to other suggestions.




kalpa
Posted: Friday, July 04, 2008 8:10:37 AM

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Hi Piquet!

First of all, it seems to me that you'll be able to solve your 10 week task as long as the actual application doesn't take longer than that to wrap up... ;)

There's no relations between users and members, but you could create one of each with the same login and password and try to find a way to pass them on the frontend. I'm quite sure there is an acceptable solution to this...

Regarding your roles, many of them could probably be assigned as member groups for the frontend application, but for the backend this will not be super-easy if you want complex access rules on a group of users. For individuals this is implemented allready.

The applications I've worked with has taken care of the access logic (below page level) themselves an just picked up the member loginname and group/s from Umbraco.

// ;) Kalle


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Adz
Posted: Friday, July 04, 2008 11:02:24 AM

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Location: United Kingdom
You can also provide content editting functionality via the frontend. For instance, the ability to add and edit content via the frontend can be provided using the "Doc2Form" extension. You can then control which frontend "members" have access to this functionality.


Adam Perry (blog, twitter), developing Umbraco based websites and applications for ConnectDigital.
Piquet
Posted: Saturday, July 05, 2008 1:04:10 AM
Rank: Newbie

Joined: 6/6/2008
Posts: 8
Location: Australia
Thanks Kalle,


The member groups looks like it will cover of what I will need for the end user then. My main concern is the content managers. You're suggesting I can just query the Umbraco API from my web application, and that would give me the user details? (I can live with limited roles at user level in the short term I think).

Doc2Form also will cover off some of the things I think for members too, so that should solve one other problem.

Cheers

PK
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