Need some help on restricting access

I have a group of vetted contributors who I wish to give access to edit author profile and create & edit blogs. However, I do not want them to have access to any of the other content management tools for creating or editing content. I thought I had this set up correctly with permissions to view (e.g., catalogues (FAQs, Links) but not adding or editing), but when a member of this group goes to, for instance, "Add blog", they can use the breadcrumbs to gain access to add a catalog entry. Worse yet, they can adjust the permissions for these. I am sure I am just not getting something about the security model but how would I accomplish the above (limited access to a few option in Content Management). Are match-keys the answer here or should I be able to set the permissions elsewhere?

I set up a menu block using "if_in_group" to control visibility to the options which works fine.

Thanks for any insight.

Bob

I believe you can accomplish that with the permission tree editor which goes very in depth with permissions.

adminzone>security>permission tree editor

Hey Bob,

I assume that when you say group, you mean that you have created a specific group for these vetted contributors. If it is the case, you can use:

Admin Zone > Security > Permissions Tree Editor

To restrict access to specific Modules within the Content Management Zone.

Hoping I understand your question and that this will help.

Jean 

Thanks Brian and Jean.

I thought I had set the permissions for the appropriate groups in the Permissions Tree Editor (yes, I have set up special Usergroups who will have access) but upon checking just now, I don't see the permissions set. I know I had some wonkiness with setting some permissions in 6.1.1 but don't remember the details (another sign it's time to take a walk  ). I'll give this a shot and see if I can get the results I want.

Thanks again for your help.

Bob

I finally got it. I was misunderstanding the "View access" setting which I thought controlled whether or not something is displayed in the front-end. It appears that is not the case.

The only funky thing I have is that if one of my contributors uses the breadcrumbs to go to "Content Management", they will see a "Blogs" button but upon choosing that button they end up at the 'Manage blogs' screen with "What would you like to do next?" and no buttons. This is most likely because these buttons actually exist in the "News" section of Content Management which I have deliberately hidden. Is there some way of allowing them to see "Add blog" and "Edit blog" under Blog Manangement? Right now, you can only choose these options from the side menu block which is workable but not particularly elegant with regard to the user being in the back-end with no options available for blogging.

Any thoughts?

Bob

Right I think the confusion here is probably that to disable access to a CMS module you need to change view permissions on the CMS module (e.g. cms_galleries) and not the site module (e.g. galleries).

Regarding blogs, you probably want to restore what news permissions were there before but disable view access to cms_news whilst keeping view access to cms_blogs.

Hi, Chris.

Not surprisingly, your suggestion worked perfectly and was obvious in retrospect.

Thanks again for your help.

Bob