ManagerManager for Revo - Hide templates

Holy Jeesters guys. I am confused as all hell. I am trying to hide certain templates in the ’Uses Template’ drop-down menu from certain manager users in Revo 2.0.8-pl.

I know that ManagerManager was able to do this quite simply in previous releases of MODx but I am having a heck of a time finding the solution for Revo. I have played around with ’Form Customization’ but to no avail. All I need is a tutorial or a step-by-step. Anyone know of anything like that anywhere?





Here are some resources I have found so far just in case it would come in handy for someone else who knows what they’re doing:
Bob’s Guides - http://bobsguides.com/revolution-permissions.html
Topic: Revo most complicated permissions system - http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,62298.0.html
Topic: MODx Revolution’s Cheatsheets - http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,48252.0.html

Form Customization will let you hide that field completely or set its default value, but it won’t let you control which templates are shown.

I won’t promise that this will work, but I think it’s supposed to.

Put the templates you want to hide into a category.

Then go to Security -> Access Controls -> User Groups tab.

Right-click on the Administrator group and select update.

On the Element Category Access tab, create a new ACL entry specifying that category, a context of ’mgr,’ a minimum role of admin Super User, and a policy of ’element.’

Save.

Flush Permissions

Flush All Sessions


That should protect those templates (assuming that either your other users are not all admin super users or they are not members of the Administrator group).

That will hide the templates in the tree, but I don’t know if hiding them in the drop-down is implemented yet. You may have to wait for 2.1.0-pl, I’m pretty sure it works there.

As a last resort, I think it would be possible to hide the template drop-down completely with Form Customization, create a TV that would show the selected templates as a drop-down list, and write a plugin that would set the template from the TV value when you save the resource.

Quote from: BobRay at May 19, 2011, 04:56 AM

Put the templates you want to hide into a category.

Then go to Security -> Access Controls -> User Groups tab.

Right-click on the Administrator group and select update.

On the Element Category Access tab, create a new ACL entry specifying that category, a context of ’mgr,’ a minimum role of admin Super User, and a policy of ’element.’

Save.

Flush Permissions

Flush All Sessions

This successfully hides the templates from the ’Uses Template’ drop-down menu, but it also hides the Template Variables, so their values can only be edited from the super user ... which is not so good

Hey guys

Thanks for your help. I have put permissions on the back burner for now. Thankfully, it’s not required for Go-Live!

Bobray..I’ll have another go and follow your instructions.

Fouk..If this is true, then I definitely need another method :S

That sounds like a bug. Could you report that using the Bugs and Requests link at the top of this page?

In the meantime, you may be able to put the template variables in a separate category and give the users access to them with another Element Category Access ACL entry.

Old post but still relavent it seems. Is this still an active issue? Trying to achieve the same things and having the same results.

This successfully hides the templates from the 'Uses Template' drop-down menu, but it also hides the Template Variables, so their values can only be edited from the super user ... which is not so good

I am seeing the same results. Placing protected templates into their own category and attaching them to the admin group does indeed make the template variables tab disappear for standard users.

In the meantime, you may be able to put the template variables in a separate category and give the users access to them with another Element Category Access ACL entry.

I tried this adding all remaining categories into the standard user group category. This does not bring back the template variables tab.

The only thing I have in the category protecting the select templates are those templates. Nothing else sitewide shares that category.

Another problem I see is that when a standard user chooses a template from the short list available to them they can also choose none which screws up the page if they save it. For some reason this action cleared all current content in template variables even upon changing the template back to the correct one. They can also still change a template on a page which has a template they do not have access too. So while the template name is hidden the ID number does show and allow them to change to an unprotected template.

So my question would be how is it possible to both have the template selector show on select resources and lock it from being changed on others?

Revolution 2.2.6.pl traditional

There may be an easier way, but one way would be a plugin that prevented a change to the Template under certain conditions. I think I would probably check in OnBeforeDocFormSave, and if the conditions are met (e.g, not the admin user), just change the Template to whatever is in the DB. I'm not positive that would work, but I think it would.

You can also put TVs into a Resource Group (though it's hard to find in the Manager), then give the users access to them with a Resource Group Access ACL entry. That might work, or not.

You can also put TVs into a Resource Group (though it's hard to find in the Manager), then give the users access to them with a Resource Group Access ACL entry. That might work, or not.

I fiddled around more with the groups and tried adding the TVs to the manager group. That gave me some weird results which opened up a whole slew of other questions without answers.

There may be an easier way

If you know it will you let me know?

As a last resort, I think it would be possible to hide the template drop-down completely with Form Customization, create a TV that would show the selected templates as a drop-down list, and write a plugin that would set the template from the TV value when you save the resource.

Is there a plugin to do this in your vast collection? There are only 2 resource types the end users need to be able to pick a template for to meet my requirements.

There may be an easier way, but one way would be a plugin that prevented a change to the Template under certain conditions. I think I would probably check in OnBeforeDocFormSave, and if the conditions are met (e.g, not the admin user), just change the Template to whatever is in the DB. I'm not positive that would work, but I think it would.

I think I have the logic worked out. I'm going to give the plugin a whirl.

@BobRay, Here's what I was thinking...



Am I on the right track?