I know that you have users, roles and permission in Orchard. However is it possible to have organisations above users?
Many thanks,
Ed
Anything is possible, if you write a module for it. Not out of the box however.
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I will be making demo version of Magento for a showcase. I want to give users admin credentials so they can see what Magento's administration has to offer.
a) Am I exposing server to some kind of security threat? I know that you can upload extensions through admin panel.
b) Users will click anything, I am sure of that. So I will make a cronjob to override database and files with backup in a certain time period.
I am not sure what kind of Magento user roles are, I need to look into it, maybe I can find a solution.
What is your opinion? Thank you in advance.
The best way is to create a new user and provide it with the permission to limited access. If you are not familiar to magento's user roles then this will be the best place to look for.
I suggest you to backup your database for the safety.
Hope this will help.
I'm about to start a new commission project and I think Orchard CMS is a good fit for what they're asking. More or less, at this point I'm still looking at my options.
Does Orchard allow people to register on my site?
According to the documentation, it seems that only Administrators can create users and assign roles to them. If this is the case, I can't use Orchard.
Maybe I missed something in the docs?
What you missed is the user settings. There is a checkbox there to allow people to register to the site. The topic you linked to is about user administration, it says nothing about who can register.
I have only recently started using Liferay 6.0. I have downloaded liferay-portal-tomcat-6.0.4_1 community edition.
First of all can you please recommend me some website and books or articles for Liferay 6.0? (The ones available on the Internet are for earlier versions...)
Secondly. I don' t seem to get the structure of Liferay. For example, how do organisation, communities, users, pages all fit in together?
Lastly, could you tell me how I could make a link on a page to point to a directory on the file system at the local machine of the user?
Thanks.
To work through Liferay internals is really tough but it's not impossible. There's no main source of documentation and people has to google around and forget things very easily without possibility to get back to the original source...
Organizations can form hierarchies as real organizations would.
Communities has similar role as organizations but from a different point of view.
The main difference consists in :
persistence - persists in time in
contrast to communities which appears
and disappears
administration - users “belong”
to an organization which means that
the the admin of an organization is
able to edit his profile. On the other
hand users “join” a community which
means that the community admin can
only manage the membership.
Relationship - organizations can
form a hierarchy while communities are
independent of each other
membership - users “must” belong
to an organization while joining a
community is optional
User groups - Unlike organizations and locations, user groups have no context associated with them. They are purely a convenience grouping that aids administrators in assigning permissions and roles to a group of users instead of individual users or assigning a group of users to a community.
Roles define permissions across the portal, an organization or across a community. There are functions like creation of a thread in a discussion forum. Problem is that there are forums across scopes like community, organization or the entire portal. So that portal role grants access to creation of a new thread in each and every discussion forum and community role just within a particular community.
I'm also a Liferay newbie but here's the general structure of Liferay in case someone is interested.
Organizations are a portal administrator mandated hierarchy. Organizations may have sub organizations that are administered by organization administrators in each organization. Each organization can have it's own pages.
Communities are like organizations but can't have sub communities and non-administrator users may be allowed to create them. Each community can have it's own pages.
Users are registered users who may have their own pages and may belong to any number of organizations and/or communities.
Pages are web pages that users with certain permissions can edit simply by selecting a predefined layout and adding/removing portlets and sub-pages.
Portlet is a web application that usually "runs" as part of a page in it's own window like container.
can you please recommend me some website and books or articles for Liferay 6.0?
Our liferay tag is a good place to start with. It contains all the relevant information about some useful websites and also some good books suggestion. And it is continually being updated.
I don' t seem to get the structure of Liferay. For example, how do organisation, communities, users, pages all fit in together?
Unlike for previous versions, the user-guide is really a good place to know some basic administration concepts like these.
could you tell me how I could make a link on a page to point to a directory on the file system at the local machine of the user?
I don't know exactly what you want or what is the requirement to do this, but giving <input type="file" /> would open the file browser to select a file or else you can use flash to achieve this or construct a link like Click to pen local folder - but this only works for windows and it opens the folder structure inside the browser itself and with IE it opens the Windows explorer.
Now, you can access Liferay documentation to learn more about liferay. Starting from v6.1 there are no communities. Now it has organizations and sites.
As far as I know, currently there is only one book for Liferay 6, from Jonas Yuan:
http://www.liferay.com/web/jonas.yuan/blog/-/blogs/liferay-book:-liferay-portal-6-enterprise-intranets
I have a permission question I hope someone can help me with.
I have setup permission groups for each department in an organization, i.e. “Dept-1”, "Dept-2", etc. My plan is to put people in these groups so they correspond with the department they work for. Next I’m setting up groups that correspond to areas of work, i.e. “Area-Tech”, “Area-Manager”. What I’d like to be able to do is give access to a list where a user needs to be in both “Dept-1” and “Area-Manager” in order to view and edit items. If a user is just in “Dept-1” they shouldn’t have access.
Can this be done? Maybe there is another way. Thanks
No, you will need a 3rd group "Dept1 Area Mgrs" or something.
The permissions in SharePoint are "OR"-based, not "AND"-based.
You could try using Audiences, but remember that this is not a security feature and information will only be hidden from the users.
Is it possible to say that all users that are Area Manager have view and write permissions and all others only have view permissions?
Is there any sort of "out of the box" system within SharePoint (i.e. MOSS 2007) that is useful for tracking/managing permissions. We've got a relatively small installation, but I can easily see special permissions for special users/sites getting out of hand. I'm hoping there's something pre-baked into SharePoint that will help with this, but if there is, I don't know where.
If this isn't available from SharePoint, are there any 3rd party tools people would recommend?
If anyone is curious, I ended up using SharePoint SUSHI for this. It has some useful "security reports" that met my needs. There's a few other goodies included as well. The best part of it all is that it's FREE. :-)
Unfortunately, I haven't found anything that great out of the box in SharePoint for managing or tracking user permissions. You always have an opportunity for customizations. There are some third party tools, however. The best tool I've found for simple management of SharePoint is the Universal SharePoint Manager v2007.
This app has some stellar tools for analyzing security and information about permissions.
Here's a link directly to the feature that might interest you the most: http://www.idevfactory.com/products/uspm2007/features/sharepoint%20user%20site%20security%20analyzer.aspx
I haven't used the USPM myself. I have used the SWAT tool which has a subset of features. iDevFactory does do a good job with their apps and I've found that it's fairly decent ant getting what you want.
Good luck!
Here is a free option that is getting good reviews http://www.codeplex.com/AccessChecker
The SharePoint Administration Toolkit contains a permission tool that shows the effective permissions for a user or group. Becky Bertram has a blog post about this.
See information for downloading it on the SharePoint Team Blog.