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dp6ai
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17 Jun 2008 12:23 PM  
I have followed the tutorial on "How to limit access to the admin menu" (great tutorial again!) but have come across a slight issue.

Once the pages (tabs) page has been moved to the new SiteAdmin Menu you are not able to add pages, only edit and move them, when logged in with the SiteAdmin user account.

Does anyone know a way round this?

thanks in advance

DP
jncraig
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18 Jun 2008 8:23 AM  
I don't have a solution, but I do have some good news. Version 5 of DotNetNuke will be much friendlier to those who want to rearrange administrative modules ...
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leesykes
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18 Jun 2008 8:31 AM  
what version of DNN are you using? I just tested this and it works for admin users on one of my test installs. - Do you have access to the module settings menu for the tabs module? - You should see the option to add new page.
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dp6ai
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18 Jun 2008 11:42 AM  
Lee,

I'm running version 04.08.02 which is pretty recent.

An admin user does have access to the module settings and can add a page that way but surely the point is to create a non admin user who can use parts of the admin menu. Doesn't it defeat the point if they have full access to the admin menu anyway?

Thanks for your help.

DP
leesykes
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19 Jun 2008 4:18 AM  
Hello,

I just tested this again and it works for a non administrator.

I created a new dotnetnuke security role and assigned it to the user
I then went to the page settings of the tab page and gave that security role view and edit permissions for the page

This gave them full access to the module for adding pages

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Revide
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13 Aug 2008 9:19 AM  
Hello,


This enables the user to add pages, but it also gives them access to the Control Panel and all the modules.

 

Is there a way to disable the Control Panel but keep the add pages functionality?


Another problem I’ve seen is that when the user adds a new page the parent page drop down is disabled. Is there a workaround for this problem as well?


 

Thanks in advance
leesykes
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18 Aug 2008 3:03 AM  
Hello,

There is not a way to configure the module settings for the tabs module, so unfortunately the user has access to the control panel.

There is no workaround for the disabled parent page drop-down
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tallorder
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06 Sep 2008 7:50 AM  

Shame about the parent page drop down being grey out since any Site Administrator is going to want to add and move pages.   

Lee please can you advise how to put the tabs/pages back under the Admin menu?

Thanks

 
leesykes
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06 Sep 2008 9:05 AM  
Hello,

Simply reverse the process, you can copy the settings from one of the other admin menu items that you will see in the tabs table, such as user accounts.
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tallorder
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07 Sep 2008 6:28 AM  
Hi Lee
Unfortunately I can't see how it works in reverse because the original process involved moving the Pages page to put it under the Home page via the Parent Page control. There is no way to specify Admin Page as the parent page when trying to reverse the process. Thoughts?
leesykes
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08 Sep 2008 8:09 AM  
Open the Tabs Table with SQL Server

Look in the TabNames column for the Portal - find the tab you wish to return back into the menu, ie. 'User Accounts'

You should see that for this row, the ParentID is a different value to the other elements in the admin menu, all you need to do is change the details for the User Accounts row to match the other rows that are in the admin menu - ie. in my live installation I would need to chnage the ParentID back to '39', level to 1, tab path to //Admin//UserAccounts

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