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Hi, I'm in the process of selecting a CMS, and CMSMS caught my attention. I'm playing with the demo at opensourcecms.com.

What I need is to manage the website of a research institute at a university (which includes a library), and it would be nice if the same CMS allowed each member of the institute to manage their own homepages. Say we have a faculty directory at www.theinstitute.edu/staff; then each member would have a "subsite", like www.theinstitute.edu/staff/peter, www.theinstitute.edu/staff/john, etc. Obviously, each member should have control only on their own sub-tree of the site (which *might* consist of a single page, but I don't want to have that restriction).

How could I do that with CMSMS?

Thanks in advance for your help.

--Fernando

create user...  Users & Groups » Users
make group... Users & Groups » Groups or use existing group
set permission of group... Users & Groups » Group Permissions  ,,,, here you will find a set of rules to govern the ability of the group hence the users, such settings as Add Pages would let them publish and they would 'own' that page, farther down a setting for "Modify Any Page" do not check this one, it would give them rights to other pages hence the "Any" you could start off by making a page, they're home page, and on the second tab "Options" you will see "Owner:" and "Additional Editors" under Owner select the users name, you should only see people with full permissions in the  Additional Editors box, if you are the only one with full admin rights it will be you in both boxes at first. submit the page, when they login to the "Backend" to make/edit pages starting with they're home page, which you can put any where in the menu...

  mark

Hi mark,

Thanks for your reply. I followed your instructions, but I still see this problem: when the user wants to add a page, she can choose *any* existing page as its parent. As the subject of my post says, I need to restrict her so that all her new pages are children of her homepage...

--Fernando

how much permission did you give?

    mark

I dont think the current permission systems allows this kind of restrictions. There has been talks about new ACL based permission system but it will be a while before we see it in action