Hi !

For each template, we can specify which member groups can have access to the rendered page. When some groups are not allowed to see the page, we can then specify the template to which they will be redirected.

That’s fine.

What would be even better is a way to specifiy in the “redirect template” from which template was the access forbidden, so that we can have a way to show appropriate information accordingly.

Is there a way to do that or shall I ask it as a Feature Request ?

Since the “redirect template” is simply loaded in place of the template requested, you can use the {segment} globals to do access the URL parts.

For http://www.yoursite.com/index.php/research/restricted/, you could use {segment_2} to see that it is the ‘restricted’ template being requested.  So, people who are not allowed to view that template can have a “redirect template” of weblog/no_access and inside that template can be something like this:

“You have been denied access to the {segment_2} page in the {segment_1} section of our site.”

Which would be translated into:

“You have been denied access to the restricted page in the research section of our site.

All right, Paul.

Well if I understand what you say, I have to create as many “restricted” templates as I have of templates whose access can be restricted.

I was just lazy enough to think that I would have one “restricted” template and pass it information in the {segment_3} on whose was calling it.

So the real question was : how do you add a segment_3 to the restricted template selection ?

No, with Paul‘s suggestion above you would only be redirecting to a single Template which would have the code he posted.  That Template would automatically display the information as he indicated.  Go ahead and test it out yourself.