Hello. I'm working on creating a custom Manager interface, and two current tasks are to:
:: limit a special Manager login to be able to create and edit user accounts, but not be able to, say, edit the admin account
and
:: limit the same Manager login to be able to upload files via the file manager, but somehow set a base-level path, preventing them from going any deeper into the system
I saw in one of Bob Ray's pages that there used to be a 'tree_root_id' parameter, and although it is deprecated now, that's the kind of functionality I'm looking for.
thanks for your time,
-Dustin
in addition, how would I also:
:: limit the same Manager login to be able to create new user groups without being able to edit/see certain groups, such as (anonymous) and Administrator
:: the same for roles...
basically, I would like to create a Manager user who can create other users, but who cannot mess with admin or other system stuff.
[ed. note: blankha last edited this post 12 years, 9 months ago.]
IMO the best and simplest way to manage things like that, is to create some Custom-Manager-Pages.
They can easily be created with help of MIGXdb.
I have a small example for managing some special Users-stuff at Github:
https://github.com/Bruno17/migxclientmanager
CMP - generator is only for creating the basics for working with Custom - tables with xpdo.
This part is also included within MIGXdb.
With MIGXdb you have everything, what you need, to build the CRUD - stuff for managing db-records.
It does create the grid, the form, has default-processors in-place, which can be created customized copies from, if they do not fit some needs.
For most tasks there are no custom-processors necessary.
In this example, I'm calling existing modx-processors inside a custom-processor:
https://github.com/Bruno17/migxclientmanager/blob/master/core/components/migxclientmanager/processors/mgr/default/update.php#L113
Here you can see the exported configuration of that example-project:
https://github.com/Bruno17/migxclientmanager/blob/master/core/components/migxclientmanager/migxconfigs/migxclientmanager.config.js
The Configurations for the grids and forms are completely created with the MIGX - Configurator - CMP.
To get a bit familiar with MIGXdb and to see how it is basically working, I would walk thrue this tutorial:
http://rtfm.modx.com/extras/revo/migxdb/migxdb.tutorials/migxdb.create-doodles-manager-with-help-of-migxdb
[ed. note: Bruno17 last edited this post 12 years, 9 months ago.]
that's fantastic. thank you very much.
I will look into this.
