Help with users

New Member Joined: Feb 11, 2009 Posts: 5

Hi there!
Maybe a stupid question but here goes: How do I create a user/admin/group that can post news and content, but not see for example the "Inactive modules" or change the start page module? Some kind of reporter/journalist function, that is.

Thanks in advance!

Tobias Henricsson

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:39 pm

The easiest way would be to go to Admin>Edit Groups>Add Group and create a group, say Reporters, and set as private. Then manually add the users to that group.

Then go to Admin>Modules>Submit News and set it to Who can view>Groups Only, and select the group/s.

Then all you have to do is either create an admin you can trust to review and approve the news giving them admin functionality for Submit News, or do it manually.

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:56 pm

Hi again, and thanks for your answer!
I'm not sure I understand this correct, so I'll ask... I can see that this applies to news, but does it also apply to "regular" pages (Content), polls, calendar etc?

In short, I want the users to be able to do the "every day stuff", but not change things that, accidently, could harm the site. The thing that crosses my mind is for example the home page, that should always be News.

Of course, one way of doing this would be to move vall the inactive modules from /htdocs/html/modules to another page, but that seems like a long shot, and very time-consuming.

I hope you understand what I mean even though English is not my first language... Smile

Thanks again!

Tobias

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:57 pm

Go to the Admin Menu and select Edit Admin.

Then in the Add a New Administrator area enter their details and tick the boxes for News & Content, click Add Author and job done.

They will be able to see the inactive modules, but they won't be able to do anything else.

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:57 pm

Apologies...That should be *giving them admin functionality for News... But Im not sure if theyd be able to see submissions, never tried it.

Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2009 3:59 pm

Just like he said^^ Smile