User groups and permissions.. help?

Hi all

Right ive built a few modx sites now ... and i think i have the hang of most things... except

The user groups etc ...

On the latest site i am building (which is massive including modx, smf and oscommerce) i need to add some users with restricted priviledges, ie: the ability only to browse and save to a certian folder ( a blog folder in this case - which im intending to make rss ) how do i go about it ? ive tried everything and cant seem to get it right, they always seem to have to much or too little privs!


any help really appreciated!

Manager restrictions or front end restrictions?

You might wish to check out Susan’s doc, too: http://modxcms.com/manager-users-roles-groups.html

Manager restrictions

1. Create a new manager user role with the ability to edit and save a page.
2. Create a new document groups, as many as you like, and assign those document group the documents that you want to have restricted admin capability.
3. Create a new user with the user role created on the first step, and assign the user to thr group created on the second step. Remember to assign the user to the document group that he has the ability to update.
4. Make sure that all document group has been assigned to the manager user, at least one manager user has to subscribed to it, for it to be private/restricted.

Hope it helps

Guys I need a little help please.

I am using the weblogin and user registration snippets, no problem there.

The way my site works is that when a user clicks on member login they are directed to the login page. Once they have logged in I would like to have some addition text displayed on the top section of my layout nav bar that would say "welcome back[+user+] plus the option to logout".

I want them to know when they are logged in and secondaly a quick log-out option without going back to my login page and logging out from there. On a final point I could not grasp where the template was being called for the default formatting in websignup snippet as well as where zip code etc is coming from

Use the Personalize snippet, and the WebLogin snippet with a template that only has the logout section in it.

Hi Susan

Are you saying use the personalise snippet instead of websignup or in addition to plus the webLogin snippet.

And then edit the template used with weblogin but remove the code for the login section ?

Its been a long day !

Its OK, sorted..

Boy I am stupid some days !

Doing a little experiment, and I discovered that you can put the [+uid+] placeholder from the Personalize snippet inside the template for the WebLogin snippet! So I just added it to the logout section, to have a Welcome, <user> -> logout message!

Thanks for the tip Susan, sorts me out nicely