Setting system settings on a user group level

Is this possible.

The example I’m looking at is I have 2 lots of users half in usergroup1 and the other half in usergroup2. I would like all pages for usergroup1 to be published by default but all pages for usergroup2 to be unpublished by default.

I have looked under security->access controls->user groups and looked at the settings for each usergroup i have set up and can’t find anything.

You’ll have to do this using a plugin. I am considering adding User Group Settings in the future, but it’s not currently supported.

Thanks for the reply having them I think would be good I can think of other situations where they would be useful. EG setting default template for different usergroups, File manager path, even down to which rich text editor.

I for one would put in a request for this adding in a later release maybe 2.1.

Quote from: peteedley at Mar 24, 2010, 11:47 AM

Thanks for the reply having them I think would be good I can think of other situations where they would be useful. EG setting default template for different usergroups, File manager path, even down to which rich text editor.

I for one would put in a request for this adding in a later release maybe 2.1.

Definitely, it’s just a little tricky, as you don’t really want them to be settings; in 2.1, some significant data structure changes will actually make this more viable, as we will basically be providing a way to define the metadata structure for different "kinds" of Resources. Think of it as Template Variables tied directly to a Resource (Resource Elements) or a way to provide "Resource Templates" to predefine a Resource meta-data/content structure.

For now a plugin is definitely the best option.