Adding users, not in groups

[mikejd]

I have a site which includes a directory of clients and have been asked if each client could be given an individual page for their business which they are able to update. I don't think I can create a group of users for the clients as all would have access to all pages, and creating a group for each client seems like overkill.

I am wondering if I can create users who are not members of any group but are given permissions to edit pages and upload images and are only given access to a single page. Or perhaps someone can suggest another way to do it.

Mike

[kweitzel]

Every User needs to be member of a group. You would need to create extra groups for this kind of staff.

Have a look at http://www.mywebsitebaker.com/ which shows this kind of "directory" quite nicely.

cheers

Klaus

[pcwacht]

Depends on the number of clients
If it is less then hundred, create the groups

If it is way more  maybe some additional programming would be handy

1 - create a usergroup wich has normal rights (no backend rights)
2 - create a page per user with it's username
3 - create a droplet wich show 'edit-this-page' if logged in username equals pagename and links to your own edit script for editing the content of that page (if it is a normal wysiwyg page)

Have fun,
John

[JC]

Hi,

@pcwacht
Is there a lot of programming required to make what you are suggesting? I would find this very handy, but I'm no programmer so I can't tell if it would be a difficult thing to do or not..
Ideally the User should go to his "preference"-page and there get the option to make a personal page that has the same name as the username of that person just like you recomended.

ciao,
JC

[pcwacht]

It all depends on what you want in the frontend, per user, and what a user can change

Most simple idea would be to create a news page for these user-pages
create an item per user
Next in the frontend, if logged in user equals the item name he/she can change the short and long content through a droplet

droplet would need to have - pseudocode
if logged in user doens NOT have a matching post-item-name -> create post-item with username
if logged in user equals post-item-name -> show edit
if edit is clicked -> show editable content
if save is clicked -> update content

By using a newspage listing of these user-pages would be a breeze.

Don't know how much coding is involved. The testing allways set you hourss back

Have fun,
John