Hello,

I plan to use EE to manage a website for a national organization where different people will be controlling their sections of the site (e.g., the NY site admin will control all aspects pertaining to the NY section of the entire site—member rights, email lists, and so on...).

Simply put, the structure of administration I am trying to achieve is this:
-2 or 3 super-admins, who control all,
-2 or 3 area/section admins that control their section’s site,
-1 to 30 users with content editing capabilities per section, and
-1 to however many simple members per section (users on an email list, forum participants, etc.)
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all password protected (of course).

Will EE provide me with something close to the above? If so, could someone tell me where to find out how?

I combed the EE user manual and forums, and I did not find what I was looking for. From what I gather, EE allows me to set up something close, but without a second, lower level admin capability. Am I right in what I gather?

I appreciate any responses to this posting. If anyone can shed some light on the subject of EE and admin levels, please, do tell!

Thanks!

you can use the ADMIN--Member Groups to create any necessary user groups and allow access to things based on that.

There are a lot of settings in the Member group and I think using that system you can get better than 90% compliance with what you need.

I created an Admins group that allows people I decide to be able to post and edit things in the weblog, but no structural things.

From your description, you should certainly be able to do what you need with EE.  As medic mentioned, you simply need to create the appropriate Member Groups under Admin > Member Groups.

For instance, you might create these Member Groups:

- SuperAdmin
- New York Admin
- New York Content Editor
- New York Simple Member

You’d then simply assign the correct permissions/abilities to each of the Member Groups to allow them to do what you need and access the correct weblogs and areas of your site.