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Drylouvre
Posted: 13 March 2008 11:29 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 37 ]  
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Hi,

Sorry for the delayed reply. It’s great that you are finding this useful. Rest assured that we haven’t forgotten about this and we are working on a much improved version based upon Mark’s request especially but including others as well. We have to do this around other work but we’ll get something out as soon as we can.

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Mark Bowen
Posted: 13 March 2008 11:37 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 38 ]  
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Hi Dry,

Wow my name is getting mentioned a lot in this thread! wink I do hope I haven’t caused any extra work for you? If I have I’m sorry.

Looking forward to any updates on this though.

Best wishes,

Mark

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Posted: 13 March 2008 12:32 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 39 ]  
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What’s wrong with extra work?  wink

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Mark Bowen
Posted: 13 March 2008 12:38 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 40 ]  
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Well when it’s non-paid work. wink

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Rean
Posted: 11 April 2008 06:29 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 41 ]  
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I am using the extension on a site which also uses Category Checkboxes (v.1.1.3). thread here
Strangely, whenever the latter is enabled, I get the following new element under “options” tab (both edit and publish, only for weblogs enabled under RE settings)

Choose the weblog that you wish to restrict entries in.
[dropdown containing weblogs]

The dropdown updates to select the appropriate weblog, from the list of weblogs chosen.

Any idea why this may be happening?
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Drylouvre
Posted: 11 April 2008 08:39 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 42 ]  
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I don’t use Category Checkboxes but I’ll install it and have a look at what has happened.

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Oxygen Smith
Posted: 10 May 2008 06:13 PM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 43 ]  
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Wow, what a sweet extension. Nice work! The interface is great.

Hmm. Is there any chance this can work with

- SAEF (stand-alone entry forms?)
- Form Helper (the edit module for SAEF, produced by Solspace?)

So that (either in hidden fields or ones a user has access to) viewing permissions could be added?

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Rean
Posted: 22 May 2008 03:19 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 44 ]  
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Something to be aware of for the plugin - the field that stores group restrictions is varchar(100). Ran into an error when I tried to set restriction for more than 7 groups: “Notice: unserialize() [function.unserialize]: Error at offset 96” - the field truncated serialized permission groups.

On client site, we have 21 user groups! Updated field to “text” type (even varchar(255) would have been too short), all works ok.
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Erwin van Lun
Posted: 03 July 2008 03:08 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 45 ]  
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Hi Dry,
In January I was very enthusiastic about your extensions (and I still am) but as it wasn’t working with MSM I still couln’t use it. I was wondering whether you have been able to do some fixing in the mean time to make this extension MSN-proof.
Let me know!
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Drylouvre
Posted: 03 July 2008 10:19 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 46 ]  
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Hi Erwin (and everybody else),

My apologies but we’ve had no time to update the extension. It is still on my todo list though I think that it will have to wait until EE2.0 appears before doing it. Some of the requested changes are significant and I’d want to make it available for both the 2.0 and the 1.6 branches without much reworking.

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mr_dimsum
Posted: 04 July 2008 05:11 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 47 ]  
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Sounds like a sweet plugin. Especially for the lazy types such as myself looking to broadcast something to editors and moderators on my sites. smile

Looking forward to it. As others have said, I don’t mind paying for this extension to push some of those features out. While I hope not all add-on’s go the way of commercial, I do believe many are validated in charging a price for their services. Since I’m a bit less knowledgeable on PHP development, I feed on crap like this.

Good job man.. Looking forward to MSM and Mark’s request in regards to selecting groups that can view it rather than not. Of course, the varchar(100) sounds like an issue as well.

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swany10012
Posted: 12 October 2008 11:13 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 48 ]  
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Drylouvre,

This sounds like a great extension.  Exactly what I am looking for.  Unfortunately I am using MSM.  downer  But I am really looking forward to the updated MSM compatible version!  I also wanted to throw my vote in with Mark Bowen and others for switching the check boxes around to be the groups included instead of the one’s that are excluded.

Just a thought on functionality… You could have a guest box be automatically checked so that the default for an entry is publicly viewable.  Then, users could uncheck that box and select specific groups based on what level of access they wanted… OR perhaps have a option in the weblog admin section to set the default access level for entries in that weblog…

Anyway great work!  I am looking forward to testing this out.  Maybe I’ll download it and play with it on one of my other sites that is not using MSM.

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Tim Smith
Posted: 14 November 2008 10:11 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 49 ]  
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Very, very useful extension. Thanks a LOT!

I hope you don’t mind, but I also wanted the permissions to work the other way around (as per Mark’s request) and have come up with following tweak for those that are interested until you have time to make a full update.

Change at line 257 of ext.restrict_entries.php from

foreach($SESS->cache['restricted_member_group_data']->result AS $key)
        {            
            if ($key['entry_id'] == $row['entry_id'])
            {
                $groups = unserialize($key['member_groups']);
                
                foreach($groups AS $key => $value)
                {
                    if($SESS->userdata['group_id'] == $value)
                    {
                        $tagdata = '';
                        break;
                    }
                }
            }
        }

to

foreach($SESS->cache['restricted_member_group_data']->result AS $key)
        {            
            if ($key['entry_id'] == $row['entry_id'])
            {
                $groups = unserialize($key['member_groups']);
                $ok=FALSE;
                foreach($groups AS $key => $value)
                {
                    if($SESS->userdata['group_id'] == $value)
                    {
                        $ok=TRUE;
                        break;
                    }
                }
                if ($ok===FALSE && $SESS->userdata['group_id']!=1){
                    $tagdata = '';
                }
            }
        }

Also change line 12 of lang.restrict_entries.php from

"Select the groups that you wish to prevent from viewing this entry",


to

"Select the groups that you wish to allow to view this entry",

Super-Admins will always get to see everything.
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Tim Smith
Posted: 15 November 2008 05:54 AM   [ Ignore ]   [ # 50 ]  
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Having trawled through the code the preview option and quick save lose the group settings because the group data needs to be retrieved from the groups post variable. Unfortunately it’s in an array and EE code wipes out POST arrays in a couple of places. I have a workaround for this.

However more problematic is that there is no hook in the right place to make quick save work. This is already the subject of a bug report here.
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