How to limit user access

Tuesday 30 November 2004 6:06:16 am

Hi Blake!

Which version of ez Publish are you using?

felix

Publlic Relations Manager
Greater Stavanger
www.greaterstavanger.com

Tuesday 30 November 2004 2:22:52 pm

Hi again!

Under roles, when you create a new rule (or edit an existing one), you can asign a node to a certain rule.

felix

Publlic Relations Manager
Greater Stavanger
www.greaterstavanger.com

Tuesday 30 November 2004 4:54:51 pm

Why don't you create two sections, then put one type of downloads into one section and the other type into the other section. Then create apropriate roles with this two sections in the role criterium, and assign the roles to apropriate user groups.

If you like this idea (and noone has a better one), I'll elaborate.

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Hubert Farnsworth

Wednesday 01 December 2004 11:34:11 am

That could also work, but if you have a lot of download folders, that would be a lot of rules. And if you want 10 folders to have identical permissions, you would have to create 10 identical roles intead of just one.

Using Sections seems a better solution to me.

So Blake, does any of this help?

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Hubert Farnsworth

Wednesday 01 December 2004 1:47:50 pm

Sections generally work like this:

You assign a secction to a node, and then that node, and all the nodes in it's subtree belong to this section.

For example lets say that you created a section called 'User Downloads', and assigned it to a folder 'Secret Downloads' in which are located the downloads which should be enabled only for logged users. Then in user roles you can define a role like this:

content read Section('User Downloads')

And then assign this role to a group users that you want to permit this downloads. And that's it.

I think that you can also put files from other folders (that are not in the subtree of 'Secret Downlads') into section 'User Downloads', by assinging them multiple locations, but I'm not 100% sure, you should verify this.

Hope this example helps, it's just an example to get what you realy need, you should do some additional stuff, but you'll figure it out. To figure out the rest read the eZ documentation about Sections, Users and Roles. After reading the docs, everything should be clear to you.

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Hubert Farnsworth

Sunday 20 March 2005 2:36:44 pm

Just to offer another solution (which we have used).
You can make copies of the classes you want to restrict, such as the file class and then put different rules around the different classes.
The benefit of this is that you can retain the same layout for your site without having to split everything into different folders (subtrees/sections).

Alternatively, use different subtree/sections and then override a view to give you the view you require having done eg a fetch tree to get all the contents you want shown in one view.

Arran