Making homepage & top menu change for anon & members

Friday 20 June 2008 6:57:46 am

Hi. Here is my plan and I appreciate any advice on how to approach this:
My site is to have three level of users: anonymous, freemember, and paidmember. I want the various levels to see different home pages, as well as give them different top menu bar selections.
Q1 Home Page
For example, the home page for anonymous members will have lists of features, a site news blog, and details on how to become a free member. When someone signs up and logs in, I don't that same info. I now want the freemember to see more content and now see info on how great it would be to become a paidmember. How do I make a different home page or home page content to drastically change based on user access permissions?

Q2 Top Menu Tabs to change
I see how to set a restricted section and allow those subfolders and subfrontpages to appear only for freemembers and then paidmembers, but it seems to be cummulative. The "higher" level members inherit the lower level content, etc. How is the best way to control the menu for this type of site?

Thanks!
Jamie

A heavy Plone user who feels like he is "cheating" by looking at EZ Publish, but it looks so good so far :-)

Monday 23 June 2008 10:35:24 am

Thank you Donat. I have reviewed that documentation and have been able to get my Question 2 to work - I have a section and permissions that turn "on" or "off" depending what a user's level is at. I am still perplexed about my first problem:

I don't see how to make an alternative "node 2" frontpage for the site home page. If I have content on the page, say "news" in the right hand column, that is available only to logged in users, then the home page will have a nasty "News - You do not have permission to view this object." instead of a blank area.

Is their a way around this, either by turning off such permission notices OR by some other means?
Thanks

A heavy Plone user who feels like he is "cheating" by looking at EZ Publish, but it looks so good so far :-)

Tuesday 24 June 2008 12:46:25 am

The easiest way to distinguish between anonymous and logged-in users is by inspecting the $current_user variable, which is available when pagelayout.tpl is being processed:

{if $current_user.is_logged_in}

your news block goes here

{/if}

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