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Hi everyone,
I just started using MODx, and am trying to get my head around the access control system. While I think I understand it now, there is something confusing in connection with QuickEdit...
Suppose you have a website with a restricted area, say Area 51, on both the web and manager side of things. Suppose further that we have a user, joe, who would like to use QuickEdit to manage the pages in Area 51. Now, to get to the pages, joe would need to have access to the area from the web side of things, which he can only do with a separate account (joeweb). But joeweb can’t get at the quickedit function, because he doesn’t have access to the manager function. So, in this case, QuickEdit is impossible to use!
Am I missing something here, or is this a situation where the strict distinction between web users/document groups and manager users/document groups causes problems?
Please help, I’d really like to use QuickEdit, especially for the less tech-savy users of my site!
TrafficJan82
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I have the same problem as TrafficJan82 , I’ve just started to use ModX and I don’t have a clue how my web users can edit pages... I use latest release of Modx 0.9.6.1 and still cannot do it. Please help! I don;t want to give my users manager access it is to complicated for them... Is it possible that QuickEdit is so limited... :/ ? Then it is pointless to use it as a content management system if you have to give your users manager access!
er... that’s the point of a management interface for a CMS, to manage the content. You can severely limit what your document editors can do with groups and roles. You can also limit their access to the Manager interface, limiting them to the QuickEdit interface.
I think you are confusing the web users, which is what limits access to viewing and interacting with the site, and manager users, which is what controls the management of the documents and other aspects of the CMS. A user who can edit documents is not a visitor with viewing and interacting rights, he is a manager with limited management rights.
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Thank for claryfing this a bit. I was using Joomla before and there is different concept of managers and web users which made me confused here.
It might help to know that originally Etomite had no web user management system at all, and that this was one of the mods that the original MODx brought to Etomite, and the reason why I decided to use it all these many years ago
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