Thanks for your suggestions Claude. Perhaps i should give you a bit more background to this project. Just to clarify, the scenario is about the opposite to the one you are puzzled by. I see the circumstances where we might want to allow someone to edit content, but for safety's sake not delete it or add new content.
Also i have a current need at a radio station to allow the sports people to work on the sports part of the site, but not touch the programming pages. We want to let the people working on one radio show to be able to update their page - add, edit and delete content, but only from their page. I dont want to let them accidentally (or deliberately - egos are huge at a radio station!) interfere with any other show's content. Another client is a professional association and has the same CMS. They have lots of user groups, related to the different branches of the profession. Most of the content on that site is only visible to people who are logged in. There's a basic .site visible to the wide world, but most of the "meat" is only visible to people who are logged in. We also want to make some content visible only to people who are logged in AND who are members of a user group - Usergroup executive meeting minutes for example, or policy white papers. Thats why i wanted to set up the permissions to be able to assign read as well as add/edit/delete rights. I'm doing it at the moment but its clumsy and a real kludge, and if anyone comes up with a new scenario that i need to account for, it will probably hurt my brain figuring it out. So since i'm working on the next version of the CMS now, i'd like to incorporate a better permissions scheme if i can find one. If i can't, i'll make do with what i have. Hence my original question. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:307634 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
