How to limit access to the admin menu

By Lee Sykes

November 2007

In this tutorial we demonstrate how you can enable additional users without the administrator security role, access to the pages from the DotNetNuke admin menu.

There are many times when you may want to give a user who edits the content of your site access to the 'Pages’ or ‘Newsletters’ menu items, but at the same time, you may not wish to give them any further access to the admin menu, such as access to the ‘Site Settings’.

In this tutorial we outline how you can give users additional rights to access individual pages from the admin menu.

Note: This method does not work with the 'User Accounts' menu item, do not attempt to give a user access to the 'User Accounts' page.

Video

Introduction
How to create a new ‘site admin’ security role
How to give users with ‘site admin’ security role access to the ‘pages’ page from the admin menu
How to identify the tab id for the ‘pages’ page
How to give users with ‘site admin’ security role access to the ‘newsletters’ page from the admin menu
How to identify the tab id for the ‘newsletters’ page
How to construct the url for the ‘page settings’
How to access the ‘page settings’ for the ‘pages’ page
How to give ‘view page’ permissions for the ‘site admin’ security role
How to relocate the ‘pages’ page from the admin menu to a new location in the menu
How to create a new ‘SiteAdmin’ menu
How to move the ‘tabs’ page to the ‘SiteAdmin’ menu
How to access the ‘page settings’ for the ‘newsletters’ page
How to give ‘view page’ permissions for the ‘site admin’ security role
How to move the ‘newsletters’ page to the ‘SiteAdmin’ menu
Viewing the new ‘SiteAdmin’ and ‘Admin’ menu items
How to create a new user with the ‘SiteAdmin’ security role
Logging in as the ‘siteadmin’ user
Viewing the new ‘SiteAdmin’ menu
Accessing the ‘pages’ and ‘newsletters’ pages as the ‘siteadmin’ user

Time Length: 11min 27secs