This was very helpful, thank you for your reply! Tom
Quoting Alexander Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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] > ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
