One thing I would really like to do is allow a group of people to edit content only.  Specifically to be able to upload and download files, to add entries into a shared calendar. 

In The "Feature Instance settings", I cannot get the "Roles to edit content:" to work at all (the check marks do not stay, and no changes are made in the database table).  And when I set up a "User that can edit content", that user can edit not only the content, but the actual page itself. I don't want any users to be able to change the page - just to add content.

Suggestions?

Joe...

Beautiful!  It works great now.

Much Appreciated.

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Edit: Joe - I still want to disable the users from being able to edit the content settings.  I don't really need to change the functionality of the ASP pages, if I can just edit the pages to remove the "edit settings for this content instance" link.  Could you point me to where I can pull that out of the ASP pages so end users can upload files, and add calendar entries - but not change any setting for the content instance?

Thanks!

Joe...

Thanks...  I really appreciate your replies!

Right now, mojoportal appears to be conceptually a sort of publish and view type model.

What I am testing is the idea of a sort of tellecommuter/remote office, collaborative portal, where an Admin type would create the actual pages and which instances of what content are on them (file upload, calendars, etc...) but EVERY user could add content - such as upload and share files(presentations, documents, etc...) and/or edit a shared calendar such as a vacation calendar, or an events or conference room calendar.  I do not want them to be able to modify, or worse yet - accidentally DELETE an instance of content.

I kludged a solution by changeing edit.gif to a 1 pixel gif so essentially noone can click on the hyperlink to edit the instance (including me :() - but the main idea is to allow people to add content but not modify the instance - The Forums module works this way - and I like that module.

Thanks for taking this into consideration.

Hi Joe,

We've been using mojoPortal for about a month now, and just love it!  We have actually created a custom application (took longer than a month) but once we found mojoPortal we made it compliant so that we could take advantage of the user administration and rolest etc.  I believe we have a case where it would be nice to have Add/Edit Content Only ability versus both Add/Edit Content and Edit Settings for this Content Instance.  It is not a show stopper for us, but I was searching the forums and thought I would reply to this thread.  Our application has been installed as a Feature to mojoPortal, and we are testing it now.  Roles that can Edit would hopefully just be able to edit/add content to a bunch tables, via our application forms.  Because we plan on (hope to) have multiple installs of our application on individual pages within one install of mojo, we don't really want a client to be able to see the security/role settings of everyone.  We will be adding two new roles for each client, and it looks to me, that although they are shaded, they are still readable.  Plus, in our case, there is really no need for them to be able to change any other settings.

I hope this makes sense.  I know it's been a few months since the last post here, so maybe something new has come to light?  Thanks so much for any feedback.

Hi Joe, we upgraded to mojoPortal 2.3.0.8 and it worked like a charm, thanks! 

My only other concern would be the Delete button still be available.  So although it would be admin types only (for our purposes) that would have access to the edit ability it would be really nice if they didn't have delete ability either.  If they do delete they are in fact deleting their application and all their data, a bit disasterous.  So for our purposes, hiding the settings link completely, would be a really awesome feature/option to have.

Sorry for the late reply I was having trouble logging in with my new openid.

Thanks again!!!