mypages possible?

Wednesday 05 January 2005 5:28:20 am

This depends on what you mean with "their own webpages". What you can very easily do is to create a content class which your users can create and change (using the role configuration). If you make this class and the corresponding templates in such a way that the users can select colors pictures, create subpages etc. you can say that users are making their own homepages (or at the very least a very customizable user page).
Your users will of course be limited to the posibilities you build into the content class you create and you can not simply put HTML into your pages (this would be possible as well, but would require you to write your own module etc.)

Sunday 27 March 2005 4:31:21 am

The forums are a good example of making a section of the website user editable. They even contain example roles and permissions. To make a section of your website readable (or editable) only by a specific group of people, the best thing to do is:
1) Go to User Accounts of the admin pages
2) Under sub-items at the bottom, create a new User Group. I called mine "Private Readers"
3) Click on Roles and Policies on the left.
4) Create a new Role
5) Name the role and create new Policies to give the permissions you want. It sounds like you have already figured out the policy editor.
6) Once the role is created you can go to the role's page and click "Assign" to assign the role to specific users or preferrably the User Group you added in 2)
7) You can then edit Users and either move them to the User Group, or you can do what I do and add a location so that they appear in multiple groups.

If you wanted a page that only the owner can view, you would grant 'content' 'read' permission to objects owned by 'self'.