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Drylouvre
Posted: 06 July 2007 04:44 PM   [ Ignore ]  
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Hi,

This extension enables another tab in the Publish page (configurable by weblog) that allows you to restrict that entry to certain member groups including the Guest group (anonymous site visitors).

It was originally conceived as a more robust way of ‘sandboxing’ content rather than either creating separate templates or defining member group/status conditionals within the main templates.

In the extension settings you can define which weblogs will have the new tab on the Publish page. If you choose the ‘Select All’ radio button then all existing and new weblogs will have the new tab.

When you publish a new entry or edit one in a weblog that you have chosen in the settings a new tab will appear called Groups. This has checkboxes for all member groups except Super Admin, Banned and Pending. All groups selected will not see that entry even if its status is Open. Super Admins can always see any entry. The Guest group is the one to select if you wish to stop anonymous visitors from viewing that entry.

Once the extension is installed a new column is shown in the Edit tab. This is called Restricted and shows which entries have had some sort of restriction applied.

I think it will only work in versions 1.5.0 and up but I’d be grateful for feedback.

Updated to version 1.0.1

Download the latest version from my site

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Dry

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textdriven
Posted: 08 July 2007 08:03 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 1 ]  
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Sounds good. I’ll be trying this out
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Posted: 08 July 2007 01:36 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 2 ]  
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Well this extension is awesome. However there is one really weird bug for me. The moment I activate it it stops Mark Huot’s Multi text extension from rendering it’s code. I just get output like this…

{track_list limit="30"} {/track_list}
No.     Track     Samples     Length
{col_1}     {col_2}         {col_3}

If this could be fixed that would be awesome.

This is such a useful extension.
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Drylouvre
Posted: 08 July 2007 01:41 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 3 ]  
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Hi Textdriven,

Ah ok. I guess that I need to add a last call variable to it. My bad. I’ll have a look at that and update it.

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Drylouvre
Posted: 08 July 2007 02:08 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 4 ]  
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Hi,

Okay, I’ve updated the extension to version 1.0.1 and added the $EXT->last_call check to the functions. Hopefully this will fix the problem. Please download the update from the first post link.

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Dry

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textdriven
Posted: 08 July 2007 02:19 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 5 ]  
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Excellent, works perfectly now. Thank you.

Btw, you might want to make the download link clearer in your first post (think people look for that before reading).
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Drylouvre
Posted: 08 July 2007 02:21 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 6 ]  
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Okay. I’ll do that. Thanks very much.

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Posted: 08 July 2007 03:35 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 7 ]  
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One other thing. The “publish/update” button will set/change the groups that can view the entry but the “quick save” button doesn’t set or update these options.
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Posted: 08 July 2007 03:43 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 8 ]  
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textdriven - 08 July 2007 03:35 PM

One other thing. The “publish/update” button will set/change the groups that can view the entry but the “quick save” button doesn’t set or update these options.

Hmm,

I’m not sure about this one. I’ll have to check out the available hooks. At the moment I am using the ‘submit_new_entry_absolute_end’ hook that is right before the redirect at the end of submission. There is another hook that might be in the right place but I need to go and check it.

I’ll get back to you about this, hopefully tomorrow.

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Posted: 08 July 2007 09:49 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 9 ]  
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Oh my. I just quoted on a job and certain user groups only seeing certain posts was one of the things that I was racking my brain about. This might come in very handy. Thanks!

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Mark Bowen
Posted: 09 July 2007 09:39 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 10 ]  
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Hi Dry,

Looks really good! Great idea and really well implemented, should come in really handy for sites in the future.

Really good work so thankyou.

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Mark

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Drylouvre
Posted: 09 July 2007 09:49 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 11 ]  
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Hi Mark,

Glad you like it.

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Drylouvre
Posted: 09 July 2007 11:47 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 12 ]  
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textdriven - 08 July 2007 03:35 PM

One other thing. The “publish/update” button will set/change the groups that can view the entry but the “quick save” button doesn’t set or update these options.

Hi Textdriven,

It doesn’t look like this is possible for new entries, at least not without hijacking the way EE inserts the entry data. But, if anyone has any light to shed on this I’d be interested to figure out a way to do it without compromising the checks that EE makes.

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Posted: 17 July 2007 06:13 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 13 ]  
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This extension - when enabled - seems to break the tag submit extension for Solspace’ Tag 2.0 module (currently in beta). Tested V 1.01 and the Tag tab disappears when enabling ext.restrict_entries.php.
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Drylouvre
Posted: 17 July 2007 06:23 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 14 ]  
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Hi MS,

Thanks for the heads up. I don’t use the Tag module so I’ll have to download it and see why this might be happening.

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Posted: 17 July 2007 06:35 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 15 ]  
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Dry, I have informed Solspace as well, as Tag 2.0 is a commercial addon and currently in beta.
Maybe, you can get in touch with them - I’m unable to tell which extension would need to be modified.

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Posted: 17 July 2007 06:39 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 16 ]  
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Markus, I will do that. Thanks again.

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Posted: 17 July 2007 09:06 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 17 ]  
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Dry, I’ll take it up with Mitchell. We might be able to get you an advance copy of Tag 2.0 so you can test.

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Posted: 27 July 2007 02:48 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 18 ]  
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Hi Dry,

Using this extension is really really great but I was wondering how easy it would be to turn around the functionality so that instead of telling it which user groups can’t see an entry, instead you would tell it which can see the entry.

The only reason I ask is that if you had say 50 user groups (overkill I know) and you wanted to say only three of them could have access then you are going to have to do a lot of clicking for each entry!! :-D

Just wondering how easy it would be to change the extension to do that?

Thanks.

Mark

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