Individual private pages.

[dusty]

Continuing on from a gentlemans question about a private website below, I was wondering, will the frontend user system allow me to easily set up a number of users who each have their own individual page? It would be ideal for setting up a client login area, where each client can see their own work previewed to them, and no one elses.

Mambo struggles with this, whilst it is possible, its fiddly and long-winded, and the more users you add the more fiddly it gets to set the permissions.

[gentoolen]

This is precisely the same question posed to me by my boss the other day.  I've taken on the task of creating a corporate site for my 29 year old company (who only now is discovering the value of the Internet).

The Boss wants to be able to provide a private link to a page only specific customers can access where they can see blueprints or download files specifically aimed for them.  Kind of a sales department ticketing system where a person in sales fires off an email to a customer and the email contains a private link (and access code) to view the link.

Is this possible without too much fiddling around with the current representation of CMSMS?

[calguy1000]

Using FrontendUsers, and CustomContent, this should be possible.  Especially with the smarty variables exported by customcontent and the frontend users module.

I'd setup a template for the private pages and in that template, along with the CustomContent tag
do somethng like

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{cms_module module=CustomContent}
{if $pagename = $username } 
...
{else}
<H1>You are not authorized to view this page</H1>
{/if}

of course, $pagename is not the correct variable, and neither is $username
but you get the idea.  You'll have to use the get_template_vars plugin to see what variables are available when logged in and on a page.

Hope this helps

[gentoolen]

Thanks for the detailed and informative reply.  I had read other posts asking about this sort of thing but your response helps a lot.

I'm certain I'll work out a solution my Boss will be pleased with.