QuickEdit not showing up for frontend users

Hi,

I have:

- created a webuser ’fred’
- put ’fred’ into a web user group
- checked ’All Document Groups’ for each page
- created a login page calling the weblogin snippet - called with [[WebLogin? &loginhomeid=`1` &logouthomeid=`1`]]

When i log into the frontend from my login page as ’fred’ i am taken to the site home page (id 1) as expected but i don’t see the ’quickedit’ button. I must be missing something, or misunderstand the way this works - could someone please enlighten me?

Thanks,
Dave

Hello Dave, QuickEdit only displays for manager users that are logged into a valid manager account. The separation of web users and manager users is a common area of confusion and is going away in upcoming releases, but for now if you want web users to be able to use QuickEdit, I believe there is a plugin that helps create/synchronize manager and web user accounts. There is also a manager login add-on that allows them to login to their manager user account from the front-end, or one could be constructed to log them into both accounts at once.

arhh, got it - thanks Jason - i was under the impression that i could have web users act as content editors without the need for them to access the manager screens. Seems like the simplest option will be to give them locked down access to the manager after all ...

You can limit what a manager can do, you can not allow them to have access to the manager interface at all and only use quick edit.

Check out the user roles to accomplish this.

Tip: to get quick edit to work you need to allow the user to run modules.

now that’s what i call service!

Of course my next problem was i created fred as a manager and assigned him to a role that only had ’content editor’ privileges. I was fully expecting to see the quickedit button when fred logs into the manager and hits preview. Look back to the forum and the answer’s waiting for me ... thanks jason and dev-cw all is working fine now.

Dave