EP Portal Content -permissions controlling and roles

[Former Member]

Hi, i have a query on the permissions assigning to the users!

i.e., here i have doifferent users and they all have their own folders in the PortalContent Directory, but i want to allow only the corresponding user to access the his own folder and disallow the other users of accessing the other user's folders.

here im giving the detail explanation of the query...

In the Content Administration-->Portal Content-> i've a folder called PortalContent.

For the Portal Content folder the Permission role is super_admin, which is need to be assigned to all users, but in Portal Content i've subfolder of my own, by defult it's taking the super_admin role, so this will also be visible and modified by all users, but i don't want to make the other users accessible my subfolder, can i make it that one as visible to only one user, and invisible to remaining users other than Admin.

please resoond to this...

thank you,

[Former Member]

Hi,

I think you should change your role concept. The super admin role should only be given to the portal admin and not to all users. They should have kind of a devloper role.

Open the portal_content folder for the every_user group.

Then restrict the subfolders to be maintainable by the super_admin role.

Now open the differnt subfolders under Portal_content to the specific user.

As a result super_admins can maintain all folders in the PCD, and the normal users can only maintain their own folder.

Hope that helps.

Frank

[Former Member]

First ofall Thanks to you for ur answer,

but, here by default the portal content folder has a permission of super_admin role, which is not removable by administrator also, you just give right click on the portal content folder choose permissions, there u can observe the super_admin role,

so whatever the folder we create in portal content will automatically taking the super_admin role, so if we want to make other folders visible to the user, we are in need to assign the role to the user, so how can we hide our own folder from others which is on portal content.

I hope i'll get a response,

sireesha.

[Former Member]

hi sireesha

I think you can do this by naming the folder with the same as your userid or anything identifyable to the user. After that before accessing the contents you can check these names and if it matches you can allow the corresponding user to access the contents.

Another thing you can do in portal is that if you are not giving the super_admin role to any of your user, you add the permissions to the corresponding folder to the user. So the folder permission is given to the corresponding users only to access its contents.

regards

geogi