changing default Document Access Permissions

Hi all,

I’m working on a members only site, and would like to change the default settings for new documents to be available to Registered rather than Public.

anyone knows how to cook it and mind sharing with me?

You can use a plugin to do this. I have done this before but dont have the ready code on hand (I will look for it later). But in any case I adapted the inherit template plugin and added a condition to set the document group on creting new documents under a certain parent.

I thought plugin is the way to go. You helped me few months back when I wanted to keep the "Continue Editing" button pressed when creating new docs.

This was the plugin code back then




Problem is, how do I find what triggers the document permission?
I assume most if not all new document defaults are controllable via plugins, if you can teach me how to fish it, I’ll love to write the article in the wiki for future users. I honestly expected it to be in the configuration options, sorta like the Default tpl to use on new docs you know what I mean?

For the document group you can set it in the same principal however the value is an arrays so the syntax would be a little different:
Where 1 is the ID of the document group you want to set.

To fish out this data look at the source code of the mutate_content.dynamic.php document in the manager>actions folder. The key is to set the plugin event to the correct event for what you want to get accomplished.

You could add action check (like in the inherit template plugin) to make an action only happen during certain conditions (editing a document under parent x).

thanks Shane for the fast reply,

Is this suppose to work with this single line only?
I tried and it doesn’t give me any error just isn’t changing anything. I assume the event I want to use is onDocPrerender.

when I tried it with $_GET & $_REQUEST it gave me phrase error.

I gave you bad code. The correct (tested and all) code is:
where 2 is the id of the document group.

You need to check the OnDocFormPrerender event on this one.

Thanks dev_cw.
That’s a handy little plugin when creating a "private" site.

I am not sure but ManagerManager might have this feature built in as well.

Yeh, I keep meaning to look into ManagerManager but the thread is so long now, and it looks fairly complex.
One day when I have some time to spare!