Hi,

Have just started using SilverStripe and love what it allows me to achieve for my village community site (see http://thruxtonvillage.com); however, at the moment this is all maintained by me via Admin and I'd like to be able to open certain pages to the relevant persons in the village.

For the life of me I cannot work out how the permissions/groups etc. are supposed to work.

Is there an idiot's guide somewhere for someone like me (an idiot!)

Thanks

Rich

The really quick overview is that permission codes are used to check if a user can do something - these are just arbitrary strings like CREATE_THIS, EDIT_THAT. Each Group can have several permission codes attached to it, and each Member can be a member of multiple groups. This is how permissions work for things like CMS access.

For page viewing it's a little different. Each Page has a relationship to many groups - you can manage this in the Access tab. If you specify access only to the selected groups, then when the page is requested the system will check if the current member belongs to one of the groups you selected. If they are, they are shown the page.

If you're restricting the edit function, you'd do something like:

1. In security, create a group
2. Add a user to that group
3. In the CMS, open the page and change the 'Who can edit this page?' in the access tab to the group you've just created.

You may need to do step 3 on any pages you wouldn't want edited by just anybody as well, set the 'Who can edit this page?' to administrators, that could be the default though, I'm not 100% sure

Hope this helps.

Ok, I have been playing a bit and can restrict (edit) access to certain individuals to certain pages... but...

2) How do I provide (restricted) access to certain people so that they can upload files to specific directories (so they have PDF, images etc, they can use on their pages)?
3) How do I prevent a user deleting a page or re-ordering the pages on the site?