I have looked all over the place and spent a great deal of time only to come to the understanding that MODX's Resource Group functionality just won't do what I want to do (which I honestly believe to be a very simple thing). You cannot simply restrict a users access to only a certain resource or resources without a huge headache, and then if you succumb to the headache of setting it up, you are essentially presented with the truth that what you have done is set the end user up for a continuing future headache and taken away the dynamic capabilities of MODX.
Before I explain the simple scenario that I wish to accomplish, let me start by saying that lot's of people have tried to explain ACL's and all come up with the conclusion that they are complex. Also I am not oblivious to the fact that user permissions and roles are a complex thing in general (I once used a Wordpress plugin to accomplish this very thing and it was a pain also), So I am not trying to single out MODX.
MODX is amazing and I love it, but like any love relationship there are frustration as you grow with your love.
Here are a few of the love doctors I have sought out for help on the topic of MODX permissions and resource groups.[/url]
http://rtfm.modx.com/revolution/2.x/administering-your-site/security/resource-groups
https://forums.modx.com/thread/16962/restrict-a-users-access-to-specific-page-or-pages
http://www.bmv-interactive.com/home/modx-acl-tutorial.html
http://designfromwithin.com/blog-webdesign-development/2012/08/28/modx-acl-customize-the-manager-using-access-controls,-user-groups-and-roles/
and plenty more I swear
Here is the scenario:
I am creating a website for a Tattoo Shop featuring portfolios for artists as well as basic informational pages. (I actually made the site once in Wordpress and hated it so I am remaking it in MODX.) The site can be found here
tattoolicious.com
I want to create levels of access to the manager.
The
Owners/Managers would have an administrators access to the site where they can see and do anything on the site short of mess with the "files" and "elements" tabs in the file tree.
The
Tattoo Artists/Employees should only have access to there "individual portfolio pages/resource" or at least the containing folder where all portfolios are kept on the manager.
OK, great! Resource Groups to the rescue right? Wrong.
When creating a resource groups, you you have to create two groups, one called "AllDocs" and another called "Portfolios", then drag every page in the site (which is tedious on larger sites may I add) into the "AllDocs" group, and then only the portfolio resources into the "Portfolios" group.
OK, even though that was tedious were all done right? Wrong.
What if the
Owner/Manager creates a new informational page, he would then have to go into the resource groups and add the page he just made into the "AllDocs group". Every time for every page he creates he must do this to keep it from the
Tattoo Artists/Employees.
This is a problem right? This takes away MODX's ability to be a dynamic CMS and abstract all the tedious work away from the user.
I tried using a package like DefaultResourceGroup but It still left me hanging without a solution.
I know this has been talked about before, but is there a better way, that is user friendly and logical?
-Jesse
[ed. note: jesseatomic last edited this post 12 years, 3 months ago.]
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