Hi, I will try and see where I can help...
> I have created a new company with the system administrator, and created a new > admin for that company. > I logged in with the company admin to the company site in aegir, and created a > group called "designers" with access to approve, websites, styles, and > changelog. First, please check if those rights are set correctly in aegir - Aegir has a AFAIK a bug with setting group permissions when creating a group. Re-editing those rights works without problem. > I created a user as a member of that group. > I logged out and logged in as the newly created user to the company site. > I tried to edit the website, but got permission denied. (WHY?) Looks like Aegir is a bit inconsistent here. These are my findings on rights for a PAGE: - as SG-Admin i created a page named "testpage" and set the author to the person "testperson" who is member of group "testgroup" with permissions to view and approve pages - person "testperson" gets to see "his" page "testpage" without the (ro) behind it and can even edit that page, but when pressing "submit" gets a "permission denied" - "testperson" can approve/disapprove his page as expected - "testperson" can NOT approve/disapprove pages owned by others conclusion: only members of the admin group seem to be able to create and edit new pages, other members can be given the right to approve/disapprove a page by setting the author-field the that person. (This seems to be a design flaw, since other elements (styles, topics) are controlled by settting the owner to a group, not a person...) > > I created a new style. > I pointed the website at the new style. > I clicked the style, and clicked "new" in the right pane. > I have only one box that says "New chile style" (chile misspelled, should be > child?). Yep, small typo here. > PROBLEM: Where is my ability to create new style elements? another aegir-"feature" I never understood. You have to make your person a power-user (edit person/Details, check the PowerUser-field) to enable style- and pageelements. (this also turns on the features to edit parameters and set scores (i.e. "sort" articles and topics)) > I'm slightly confused as to how permissions are assigned in this program, and > am > unsure how to set things up properly without confusing my co-workers when I > assign them userid's to access various parts of this site. Why can I create a > whole new style, but no style elements? It doesn't make sense to me... You are right, but unfortunately Aegir 1.x is not getting developed any further... Luckily most of those "bugs" (there is a bunch more, most of them smaller ones) don't affect the workflow too much. I have made good experiences with leaving the rights for pages to the admin group and making most of the settings and changes in styles and style-elements which are easier to "user-control". Most of our customers just want to see and edit their topics and articles anyway... > Thanks to whomever can explain this confusing user permissions problem to me. > I'm using aegir 1.0.3 on top of midgard 1.7.0 Hope I could help a bit, I would really like to see Aegir 1.x developed further, but unfortunately i don't have enough time and experience to take on the job. If anyone volunteers though I would be more than happy to provide a few fixes and patches i have made. (for example for changing the behavior of index-articles being created UPPERCASE, for setting descriptions to the extraN fields, and 2 alpha-state AddOns for Aegir providing a forum and a photogallery - If anyone is interested, just drop me a note) Regards, Alex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
