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Andrew Kelly	Wednesday 12 April 2006 4:37:28 am Dear all, I am trying to perform the simple task of permitting users to edit their profile information from the public site access of my site. I've spent about the last 3 hours reading every post I could find and try every suggestion made on the topic, but so far no luck. The general concensus seems to be simply -- provide the user/selfedit role to the group in question -- provide a link to /content/edit/<user_content_object_id> This simply does not work, sorry. After adding the role user/password to my subscribers group, I have no problem with password changes from the "front end". But user/selfedit is not permitting access to profile editing as all the posts seem to say it should. I'm not really even interested in allowing these users to change their whole profile. All I'm after is giving them the ability to change password and e-mail address from the public site access (front end). Can somebody please tell me how this is done or point me to some clear documentation? I'd REALLY, REALLY appreciate it, and thank you greatly in advance. (If your answer is "assign the user/selfedit role" don't bother posting, because it simply doesn't work). Thanks in advance, Andy
Pascal von Büren	Wednesday 12 April 2006 6:21:56 am Hi Andrew Do your users have the permission, to edit their own content objects? Maybe you should grant <b>Content/edit</b> with limitation to Owner=Self to the specific user class. Just a guess...
Andrew Kelly	Wednesday 12 April 2006 6:40:40 am Hi Pascal, Thanks for the suggestion. That's one of the many things that I tried and at which I failed. Giving the user edit/self permissions won't work, becuase the user objects were created and are owned by the administrator user. Andy
Betsy Gamrat	Wednesday 12 April 2006 8:27:10 am Hi, One option would be to create a new user class, with additional fields, and use those fields to populate the profile. That's probably a good starting point. Copy the existing user class and change it to suit your needs. More complex options: Would it be possible to change the ownership of the user object to itself? I've never tried it, you may be able to create an event that fires after publish and changes the owner of the user object to itself. Another approach would be to use a backend PHP script to do it. I wish I had the code to give you, but I don't, and I'm sorry neither of these suggestions are easy to implement. Good luck.
Mark Marsiglio	Wednesday 14 June 2006 1:09:32 am I experienced this problem until I added the last policy shown here to the role: Guest Self Edit user selfedit No limitations Guest Self Edit user password No limitations Guest Self Edit user preferences No limitations Guest Self Edit content edit Section( Users ) , Owner( Self ) While the owner is shown as administrator, this seemed to work. I can edit the user account under which I am logged in, but get a permission denied error when trying to edit any other user account or other content object. http://www.thinkcreative.com Turning Ideas Into Strategic Solutions