Making an invisible partition of a site

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

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?

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
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