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Hi All,

Having problems with the additional editors.

Where do define who these are, as all users are always showing in there.

Also, I have a group called IT, with 2 users. The group has no rights at all, none of the permissions are checked, but they can still edit 2 of my pages?

Any Help?

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Have managed to figure out to remove someone from additional users, but having to do so from within the database. Not a good idea I know, but so far, the only way I can see how.

I can deselect the additional users from the list box so none are selected, but when you submit the page the first in the list is always selected? Is this ia bug?

Just a suggestion, would it not be a better idea to have 2 listboxes. One that contains users allowed to edit a page, and one containing the users NOT allowed to edit the page?

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SandyD

Yeah, we're gonna revamp all that stuff in an upcoming release.  I want page permissions to be more fine-grained as well.

Though, if you want to remove all of the editors in the box, hold down ctrl when you click the last one.

I am not understanding how to remove editors from a page.  

under OPTIONS for a page I can click on the names of additional editors (all users) but I can find no way to delete them.

Also am I understanding correctly that the only way currently to specify who can edit each page is to do so in the database? And is that safe?

thanks,
Teri

Sily me, I figured it out.
If a name is not selected when I hit submit, they are disempowered.

Ted wrote: Though, if you want to remove all of the editors in the box, hold down ctrl when you click the last one.

Have the same problem but your hint does not work. Yes, the entries will be deactivated but if I'm saving this page and call it once again additional editors are activated . I'm using v 0.11.2.

Well the cryptic instructions had me totally bamboozled too, so I decided to write my own [that's part of what I do that for a living ]

VERSION CMSMS 1.0.2

• CREATE A USER
• CREATE A GROUP
• SET THE GROUP PERMISSIONS
• GO TO PAGE AND ASSIGN USER TO IT

CREATE A USER

* login to your CMSMS Control Panel
* select USERS & GROUPS from the Menu
* select USERS
* click ADD NEW USER
* type a name for the User [I chose 'Harvey'], and type password twice
* fields with * must be completed, so that's the first 3 on the screen
* make sure the little 'Active' checkbox is checked/selected
* click SUBMIT button
* you will now see a list of Current Users

CREATE A GROUP

* select GROUPS
* click ADD NEW GROUP
* type a name for the group [I chose 'Test']
* make sure the little 'Active' checkbox is checked/selected
* click SUBMIT button

You are now back at a list of CURRENT GROUPS

You should be able to see the NAME you just created.

To the right of the name you will see some little icons.
First icon is green symbol for ACTIVE.
Second icon is a set of keys - for PERMISSIONS [these are the pages/etc you will allow people to access].
Third icon is two little people [head and shoulders] - for ADD USERS.

* click ADD USERS
* click the name of the new User you just created
* on the right hand side, click to select the little checkbox
* click SUBMIT button.

SET THE GROUP PERMISSIONS

* under Users & Groups, select Group Permissions from the Menu
* choose the name of the group you just created, from the popup list
* click on SELECT GROUP
* you will be presented with a long list of 'actions' and 'permissions'
* decide what you want your user to have access to, and click each box on the right hand side to select each item
* if you DO NOT want your User to modify ALL PAGES, do not click ' MODIFY ALL PAGES'
* if you want your User to have access to ONE PAGE ONLY, do not click any boxes on this page
* click SUBMIT
* you'll be back at the Group Permissions page, and will see the message 'Permissions have been updated'.

NOW, LET'S GO TO ONE PAGE AND ALLOW THE USER TO ACCESS IT!

* In the top Menu, select CONTENT  then PAGES
* choose a page and click its link
* when the page opens, you will notice three TABS just below 'Edit Content'
* click the middle one, called OPTIONS
* at the bottom of this Options page, is a field called OWNER - usually this is the name person who designed the site, and can also be the owner of the website
* if you click the name, you will also see your new User's name - do NOT select the name
* just below this Owner's field, is another long skinny field, called 'Additional Editors'
* you will see your new User's name here.

TO ADD YOUR USER AS AN ADDITIONAL EDITOR

* click your new User's name [as an Additional Editor] - just click once to select it
* now click the SUBMIT button
* at the top of the list of Pages you will see, 'The content was successfully updated'.

You're done!  To test it works, logout of the CMS, then log back in as the new User - and you should only see ONE page for you to access.

TO REMOVE YOUR USER FROM BEING AN ADDITIONAL EDITOR

* go to OPTIONS tab for the page, as mentioned above
* click your new User's name [from the Additional Editor list at bottom of page] - just click once to select it
* on a PC - hold down Control key and click once to remove highlight
* on a Mac - hold down Command/Apple key and click once to remove highlight
* now click the SUBMIT button
* at the top of the list of Pages you will see, 'The content was successfully updated'.

Good luck!  PS - hope I didn't miss out any steps!  Let me know if I have
PPS - If I should have put this somewhere else, please let me know.

Cheers
WebGirl

This would be nice in the Documentations...

Login with your forum name and password to edit/add pages/articles...

Thanks Mark, have added this to the wiki documentation! My first time to do that

Here is the link :
http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... ups/Groups

May be the information is still good for 1.1.x.

Pierre M.