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Krischan Hauschkez	Friday 20 October 2006 6:28:13 am Hi! I'm building my first EZ-site now. And I have a little problem: When I want to make a node and its children invisible to all anonymous users, how do I do that? Is there something like a step-by-step-tutorial for the role management somewhere? I doubt that this will be my last question in this field of interest... Thanks, Krischan
Mark Marsiglio	Friday 20 October 2006 6:40:50 am I would suggest using sections to accomplish your goal. If you create a new section called "secure" in the setup/sections area, then apply that section to the node you want to hide, it will prevent anonymous users from seeing it or any of its children. The next step would be to create a new role that allows some users to see the content. Add a new role that allows the content/read policy for the new section (secure). Then assign the new role to a new user group, and any user who logs in as a member of that group will be able to see the secure section after login . http://www.thinkcreative.com Turning Ideas Into Strategic Solutions
Krischan Hauschkez	Friday 20 October 2006 8:49:31 am Sounds like what I need. But can't I do it the other way round? I created a section and now I thought it would be simplert to tell just one group (anonymous user) that they are not allowed to view. But everybody else is per default. Do you understand what I mean?
Claudia Kosny	Friday 20 October 2006 3:37:39 pm Hi Krischan As far as I know this is not possible (yet). You can only allow something, forbidding something is not possible. Although it would certainly be a nice feature. Claudia
Marco Zinn	Sunday 22 October 2006 8:31:44 am Hi, the permission system of ezpublish only works with "positive rules", that is, each new role is empty (which means, you cannot do anything with it) and you will have to add "allow-this"-policys for that role. If you want to hide parts of your content (a subtree) from everyone, just create a new section and assign it to that subtree. Thus, only the users with the "Administrator" role will have access to it. Quick links: http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/user_manual/3_8/the_administration_interface/the_user_accounts_tab/roles_and_policies http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/user_manual/3_8/daily_tasks/managing_sections Using sections, you can create (or edit) roles to allow access (for example: read-only) to that new section. If you want to hide the section completely (only admin will have access to it), you could _hide_ it: http://ez.no/doc/ez_publish/user_manual/3_8/daily_tasks/hiding_and_revealing_content Marco http://www.hyperroad-design.com
Krischan Hauschkez	Sunday 22 October 2006 10:44:24 am Marco, that was exactly what I was searching for. It's a bit more complicated as I think it should be, but anyway: I managed to do it! Thanks a lot, you were all very helpful!