Hi guys,

I need to know if a module, plugin or extension exists so that I can stop members from publishing articles in certain categories. What I basically want is a member (or a group) to not even see certain categories when they go to publish an article.

So, to give you a basic ‘workflow’ of what I need:

1) Admin creates a member and assigns them to the ‘Limited’ group
2) Admin assigns the user to the ‘News’ and ‘Personal’ categories, but not to the ‘Work’ or ‘Random articles’ categories.
3) User creates a new article, but the only category options they have are the ‘News’ and ‘Personal’
4) Everyone is happy!

I can’t use the ‘Weblogs’ in this case, since I need them to define the types of articles being written, so everyone should be able to access all ‘Weblogs’, but not be able to publish under certain categories…

If nothing like this exists, would writing an Extension be the way to go?

Thanks,

Michael

No, sorry, I know of no way to accomplish this. You probably have to re-think your setup, using weblogs instead of categories would be the way to go.

Thanks for the reply… I figured that would be the case, so I’m writing an extension. I’m going to basically do this:

1) Create a custom field for categories
2) Type a comma-separated list of member groups that have access to this category
3) Write an extension that uses the ‘publish_form_category_display’ hook to manipulate the display of the categories
4) Show only the categories the user has access to.

Unfortunately, weblogs fits in extremely well into another aspect of the project, so I can’t use them. Everything EE offers fits really well, its just this permissions model that lacks a little for my use…

Thanks!

Michael

Well, good luck to you, and let us know how it goes. I am sure there’d be more people interested in that functionality.

Hi Michael, just following up on this issue.

Were you able to get an extension written to limit access for certain member groups to a specific category? Thanks!

Jae

Hi Michael,

Restricting member groups to certain categories is a very useful, very needed feature. Some time ago I even posted a feature request asking for this.

I wish you the best success in writing your extension and hope to be able to try it in the near future.

Hi guys,

I did write an extension but I’ll need to get permission before I publicly release anything. I’ll have a chat to the right people today and I’ll see what I can do.

That’d be great Michael - and thanks a bunch

This would be a great plug-in for us as well, please keep the community posted.

Did anybody else have any luck with this? I have a site for which something like this would be incredibly useful.

Michael—any chance you could share that extension, at least for me to have a look at how it’s put together?

michaelb on 24 June 2008:

I did write an extension but I’ll need to get permission before I publicly release anything. I’ll have a chat to the right people today and I’ll see what I can do.

Michael, have the right people forbidden you to release your extension?

Any update on this extension? Tx!