I have set up a custom member groups based on the superadmin group. This group has access to the CP and all but the templates sections of the CP, and can administer members, but the link does not show up on the CP home page. I can navigate to it in the admin section.

I have not yet upgraded from 1.6.1 if that will help.

Thanks,
mgk

I’m sorry to see a month later that there’s no response to your question… I have it too: I created a group based on SuperAdmin for folks who I don’t want messing with templates… but who otherwise will be administering the site.  It’s a blog that’s going to be restricted to members approved by these Admins, but I can’t figure out how to show them “Members Awaiting Activation”.  I’d have thought it would be a straightforward setting.

And I’m running the latest & greatest right now: 1.6.3

I have also upgraded to 1.6.3.

mgk

Does the user have the Site Statistics box showing on the CP Home Page?

I’ve also moved this down to the Technical Support forum.

Yes: there’s a Site Statistics box.  It contains: Total Weblog Entries, Total Comments, Total Trackbacks, Total Combined Page Hits, and Comments Awaiting Validation…

... but when I log in as SuperAdmin, I have additional rows in the Site Statistics box: “System Status, Version… and Total Members, Members Awaiting Activation”.

malacandra, this functionality is restricted to true SuperAdmins.

You can find this code in cp.home.php.

You could make a modification to this file to include your new user group, or you just remove the if statement part of this.

In either case, this would be considered a hack, one you’d have to maintain between versions.

Sue,

Thanks for responding to this. 

That’s too bad.  It’s a useful bit of information for anyone who has the capability to administrate members accounts to be able to see, and that ability isn’t just restricted to ‘true’ SuperAdmins. 

I’m currently building a number of sites for clients who really ought not to have the means to break the site design by messing with templates, or break EE by messing with other Admin functions… but who require user admin capability.  I dare not give these folks SuperAdmin privileges.

You could create a stand alone page with that information in it, with a link back to activate the person. NOTE: I don’t have an example to show you right this minute, this is more of a howto at this point.

malacandra, you might also make the appropriate FR to have this behavior change, but as Sue pointed out, it’s only “real” Superadmins so far. Does that solve your technical issue for the time being?

Sue,

Can we simply add a new user group id while keeping the super admin group id in tact using the following?

The original:

Updated:

Or:

lol, that definitely doesn’t work.

You could probably hack EE, more specifically cp.home.php to achieve that, but we don’t recommend it. You would use standard PHP syntax, which is somewhat different from your example.

Since this would be necessarily unsupported and go beyond regular tech support: do you want me to move this thread to Howto, or are we good to close it out?

I no longer have a need for it, since I opted to take the registration link off and add members in the control panel instead—it is a relatively small group.

Thanks,
mgk

Glad to hear you found a solution.