Not yet, but it will go into trunk when I do so look for it
in 2.0
-----Original Message-----
From: Phillip Smith [mailto:phillip communitybandwidth.ca]
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2008 8:45 AM
To: userslists.bricolage.cc
Subject: Re: Limiting category options when creating
stories
On 19-Feb-08, at 1:43 PM, Beaudet, David P. wrote:
>
> The Bricolage source code required a modification to
restrict story
> search results based on user permissions such as
categories.
Was that modification committed?
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Phillip Smith [mailto:phillipcommunitybandwidth.ca]
> Sent: Tue 2/19/2008 9:46 AM
> To: userslists.bricolage.cc
> Subject: Re: Limiting category options when creating
stories
>
>
> On 18-Feb-08, at 7:00 PM, Schults, Chris wrote:
>
>>> I think this has been asked before -- limiting
the visible
>>> categories
>>> based on permissions -- and I don't think
there's an easy way to do
>>> it
>>> (unfortunately). However, just taking a guess
here: if it were a
>>> show-
>>> stopper, I suspect you could adjust the query
that produces the
>>> category list to exclude certain categories
from the results ....
>>> maybe even based on what profile is being used
(media or story).
>>>
>>> I may be way off -- so hopefully others will
correct me if that's
>>> just
>>> "way out there."
>>
>> Thanks Phillip, I was hoping this was possible
outside of modifying
>> the
>> source code. I have to admit, permission management
is the one area
>> of
>> Bricolage that I'm least familiar with.
>>
>> As I understand it, I can limit what categories
appear using user
>> groups. For example, say I want to restrict my
communications
>> manager to
>> managing stories of type 'News Release' within the
category
>> '/about/news/'. I could create a user group called
'Communications'
>> and
>> DENY all categories except '/about/news/', right?
I'm assuming that I
>> could also somehow limit what types of stories this
user group can
>> access.
>>
>> While this solves my problem for discrete user
groups, those of us
>> with
>> broader permissions would still need to wade
through the long list of
>> categories.
>
>
> I was under the impression that restricting permission
prevented users
> from putting stories in those categories, but not
necessarily from
> seeing them. I have to admit some fuzziness in my
understanding of the
> breadth of Bricolage's permission system too ... so I
could be way off
> here. Either way, I look forward to your report back on
it! 
>
> Best,
>
> Phillip.
>
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