A policy for a separate content object

Monday 09 May 2005 10:38:21 am

As usual, first I will outline my situation and then will write my question.

For example, I create a folder in "Content structure" tab and call it - "Widgets". Then I open Setup -> Classes and create a content class naming it, say, "Widget". This class has the following attributes:

Att1: [TextLine] - Title
Att2: [Textfield] - TextBody

(actually I need much more fields but it doesn't matter right now)

Then I create a new section called "Widget section" and added a few objects (of "Widget" content class) in the folder "Widgets".

When I clear the caches and renew the site I see that there is a new section in the menu. That's nice. But I want some specific functionality for that section.

So this is my question: can I set user/role policies so that every guest user that logging into the site could only see those widgets that I assign to him/her?

For instance, I have two users registered with my site - George Bush and Vladimir Putin. :) Via the admin area I created three widgets in the folder "Widgets":

-widget1
-widget2
-widget3

And somehow I assigned the first two to George Bush and the last one - to V.Putin. So, when G.Bush logs in and click "Widgets" menu tab he sees only the first two widgets. The same is with V.Putin - he cannot see Bush's widgets, but only his own.

I tried to enter new attribute for the widget class - it is called "Object relation" and selected Guest users folder. But I don't know what to do further.

Thanks,
-Marat

Tuesday 10 May 2005 4:34:48 am

I think, logically all that should be implemented in this way:

1. I specify a user per each personal-article manually (actually I will do it exactly so).

2. In the template for displaying the "Widgets" folder I write a piece of code (perhaps 'if-then') that compares two variables - 'logged in user name' and 'the object relation list attribute' with one another. If they are the same - then the article is listed. If not - then false (not listed). I'll look up the documentation for eZ and learn if-then clause.

Maybe another implementation could be as follows:
to create a folder for each user and simply cut-paste the article into it. That would be much easier to implement as for the template code. However, it's a problem here on how to create a folder for each newly registered user :) It can be done manually but when there are hundreds of users it's a really frustrating work.
What do think? :)

Thanks,
Marat

Tuesday 10 May 2005 4:57:16 am

If you don't have too many groups (having different access rights):

Create several groups of users (say west and east),
Grant them different access rights:
East has a read access to section "east"
West has a read access to section "west"

Then assign the section to the widgets and it works.

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