Hey that worked! Thanks so much!
No problem.
When editing a status, I can clearly see the menu for “Restrict status to members of specific groups” - is that strictly for allowing someone to post? Not view?
Yes unfortunately the Restrictions are only placed upon when people are posting entries and not viewing them. More information about this can be found in the documentation here.
Ok so last question then, Is there a way to have my client define which member groups are able to see which articles using that status?
Any options you can think of to let the client choose which articles can be viewed without coding any templates? I’m fine doing any initial code, but just need to know if the client can then change the permissions later in EE.
Thanks again!
Without having some sort of extension to do this (I only know of the one which I linked to earlier although I’m not entirely certain that still works with 1.6.7) then the only other way that I can think of will be say have a drop-down field which has the IDs of the member_groups in it. Let’s say the field is called allowed_member_group. You could then do this sort of thing :
{exp:weblog:entries weblog="default_site"}
{if member_group == allowed_member_group}
Show full entry here
{if:else}
Show partial entry here
{/if}
{/exp:weblog:entries}This is only going to be good for a one entry to one group sort of working though so to make it work so that you can have multiple groups viewing an entry you would need to look into either possibly relationships or a multi drop-down field.
Best wishes,
Mark