If you use roles for the create/edit and the user doesn't have permission to create/edit then it will redirect them to a login/register screen. This template can be overriden so that it says whatever you want it to.

Also see

http://www.ez.no/ez_publish/docum...incoming/tutorial_using_userregister

Regards,

James

Modified on Thursday 29 January 2004 2:39:55 pm by James Packham

Thanks James, it has helped a bit, however I still need to know how to create some simple screens for creating / editing / deleting articles.

Ideally I'd like to re-use the forms in the admin system which simply present each field name with an input box (ie as if they were creating and article in the admin intrface but without the rest of the admin system)

It doesnt need to be pretty but it does need to be simple to build and use

Hi Nick,
I can tell you what I did to downsize the admin interface.
I made a copy of the complete design/admin folder to e.g. design/adminlight
Then I added a new siteaccess, e.g. adminlight.
Pointing in the siteaccess/adminlight/site.in.append the
[DatabaseSettings], [FileSettings] to the same values as in your admin settings.
Point the [DesignSettings] value to the copied folder:
SiteDesign=adminlight

Turn on the debug informations for templates:

[TemplateSettings]
Debug=enabled

The clue is now, to edit first the design/adminlight/templates/pagelayout.tpl and loginpagelaout.tpl. Here you can easily delete the tabs and buttons, which you don't want to be seen by your users.

With the Debug information from the ini TemplateSettings you can see, which templates you have to override from the standard or adminlight folders. If the template is in adminlight, then you can edit it and customize. If its in the standard folder, then you should override and customize it later in the adminlight folder.

At the end you have two admininistration designs: one for yourself (admin), and one for the users (adminlight).

Then you have to create the users. Create first a role, e.g. for the newseditor with s.th. like:
user login *
content read Class( Folder , Article )
content edit Class( Folder , Article )
This only a easy access, with no distinctions for section etc.

If users login now in http://yourhost/index.php/adminlight, they have only access to the folder and articles.

I hope it helps,

regards
andreas

Thanks andreas - I'll giove that a try

Hello

I have the same problem. I want the users who are logged inn on mye portal, to be able to upload news. I tried downsizing the admin interface by using the example andreas delivered.
I couldn`t make it work...

Does anyone know if there is a template or something that I can use to submit newsarticles from the userinterface?

Thanx in advance

Jon Arne

Simple editing can be done on the user page. Check out this link on frontpage editing:

http://ez.no/ez_publish/documenta..._removing_content_from_the_user_page

Hello

Thanx alot Kristian, that link helpt us big time.
But how can I controll where in the content-structure the object will be placed?

I inserted the code that displays a dropdownlist with the classes the user has access to create and then a button to create it. I inserted this into the pagelayout.tpl to trie it out.

Then I copied the design/standard/templates/content/edit.tpl into design/mydesign/templates/edit.tpl and removed the lines mentioned in the tutorial.

So fare I am able to publish for example an article, but I can`t understand where in the content-structure it is placed.

What do I do wrong?

Hi Andreas,
following your instructions, I made adminlight interface, but it tooks stylesheets from 'strandard' design, not from 'adminlight' design - where else should I make changes?

Greetings
Aleksander

Well,
I made some stupid mistake. After repeating your instruction steps again, everything works just great.

Aleksander