Extra Security Settings

[musicscore]

I really need an extra security setting. I want to allow users to edit the content of a page but they should NOT be allowed to change any of the page related settings. In our club about 100 persons are change the contect of pages but when they also can change the other page related setting, the automatic menu changes all the time, some pages use the wrong template and cetra.

Please build an security option "only change page content" (or something) which can be assigned to groups.

Musicscore

[jelle]

Extra security is not a surrogate for training your users. It is not a lack of security if a user changes some metadata because he does not know what it is for or because she is trying to see what it does. You need a sandbox for that. My guess is that if you really are using 100 editors, you are outside the target audience that CMS made simple is for. You should have the resources to make/sponsor such a change  yourself.

OTOH: the permissions system as it is now is pretty crude as there is no way te restrict editing  to certain parts of the site apart from the 'extra editors' thing. Changing that to something more commonly used (like unix-style permissions) would  improve the understandability of cms. But I think that would be the sort of change worthy of it's own module. 

[musicscore]

I discovered that website baker 2.x has the function to set the access to pages to only edit.
Please developers. take a look at website baker 2.x security settings. Maybe something like that can be implemented in a next release of CMS Made Simple, which i realy like. 

[jelle]

patience, grashopper.

(and if you cant find a big enough supply of that, in your case more of it can be found in a book called dive into php or such the like )

[Ted]

calguy is going to start on the new permissions system right after 0.12 is released.  We should have something good for you in the near future.

[musicscore]

Thanks,

Because now editor can move a page to another place in the menu, give it anothere template etc. So editor which should only edit te content of pages can mess-up my 'beautiful' site.

I'm hopefull !!!

Greetingz

Musicscore

[musicscore]

Just tested Release 1 beta and I was a little disapointed. It is stil possible that someone who is able to edit a page is also able to modify the menu structure. Hoped that after release 0.12 someone would make an extra option to hide (disable) the field to put the page at any place in the menu. Look fot example in website baker. I want to use cms made simple because it is a very good cms but I realy need a access-right only enabling editing the content of pages, not all the other page opties. Editing a page is not editing the structure of the site.

Please try to put it in the final release 1.0.

Greetingz,

Musicscore