A member area + user area question

Hi there!

I am still trying to figure out how things work in revo...

My current problem is:
If I want a member area -> I create a member group and assign resources to it

But what if I want special pages for single (web)users, too? Do I have to create a group for each user and asign resources to it?

Greetings
pan!c

Quote from: pan!c at Dec 26, 2009, 08:52 AM

My current problem is:
If I want a member area -> I create a member group and assign resources to it

But what if I want special pages for single (web)users, too? Do I have to create a group for each user and asign resources to it?

For now, yes; User-specific access policies will be added however in the near future.

There are other ways to deal with this however, including using Template Variables to allow selection of a User from a User Group and writing a custom snippet to use this data to determine access rights.

ok, thanks.

Which effects does it have if I create a user group as a child of another group?
Does it in any way effect the visibility of resources assigned to one or to the other group (depending on the user and its group)?

Quote from: pan!c at Dec 29, 2009, 12:30 PM

Which effects does it have if I create a user group as a child of another group?
Does it in any way effect the visibility of resources assigned to one or to the other group (depending on the user and its group)?

At the moment the only effect of creating child UserGroups is organizational, though in the future we will be adding optional policy inheritance from parent UserGroups.

thank you for the quick info!

For the single person stuff,

If the content is pulled from a database simply run a snippet that 1) checks if it is the front end, 2) checks if the current user has a session (or is logged in), 3) pull the content based on their MODx internal key ( you did use that in the other table to join to, right?)

and dump the contents into placeholders.

This way you only create a single page for everyone, and MODx handles all of the ACL stuff so you can move along.

this is currently over my head. but I will look into it...