Restrict access to some languages for a manager user?

Is it possible to assign manager user groups to a language so that I can manage what languages people can manage? The idea is to assign manager users to a group and then bind that group to 1 or more languages. That way people can only change their own language and not mess with the others.

I think it is the easiest to manage this through ManagerManager, but how can I arrange this?

Quote from: MediaGuy at Dec 13, 2009, 02:02 PM

Is it possible to assign manager user groups to a language so that I can manage what languages people can manage? The idea is to assign manager users to a group and then bind that group to 1 or more languages. That way people can only change their own language and not mess with the others.

I think it is the easiest to manage this through ManagerManager, but how can I arrange this?

Nice idea. I can see how that would be useful. I agree that it would be easiest to implement this using ManagerManager. Please can you try out the attached patch to the yams.mm_rules.inc.php file which should add such functionality?

To use this you need to define an array called $yamsLanguageRoleMap which maps language ids to a comma separated list of roles (ManagerManager format) that can access the language. For example

would mean that only administrators (role 1) would have access to English.

would mean that all roles apart from administrators (role 1) would have access to English.

If a language is left out of the array, all roles have access to the language. If the $yamsLanguageRoleMap array is not defined at all YAMS falls back to the default of allowing all roles access to all languages.

You need to define this array before the

line in your ManagerManager rules chunk.

Let me know how you get on.

EDIT: If this works fine, then for the next release I will probably add the $yamsLanguageRoleMap array to the YAMS config file and allow it to be managed via the YAMS module interface.

Great, I will test this as soon as possible!!!

Just got some time to test it, it seems to work great!

Is it also possible to create a function to show a languages content, but to deny editing of it? I need to show the english language as reference, but users shouldn’t be allowed to edit that tab. Is it possible to create a tab (with ManagerManager) and show custom content in it? That way we could make a view which only displays the content without editor.

//edit

after some more testing I discovered some error:




I used this setting with 3 languages active (nl, en, fr), I see every tab in the manager with the administrator role, but the tab with the NL language doesn’t show any content. When I check it with a "role 4" user I see content at the NL language tab.

I think their is a problem with setting multiple roles, when I set this I have the same problem but then with role 4:

Does someone know how to fix this? My php skills are too low to fix this

Apologies. I misread the ManagerManager documentation and so didn’t implement the negation of the roles list correctly. I have updated the YAMS ManagerManager rules. Please can you see if this fixes the problem you encountered?

Thanks for the update, I will try it later this week!

Did some tests and it does work now.