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Hi all:

I have convenience “Edit this” links in a EE 1.6 site with MSM. But they only work if the user has selected the appropriate site in the control panel before clicking the link

For example:

  * User is logged in to CP, and SiteA is selected from MSM.

  * User goes to visit public side of SiteB.

  * User is logged in and in the correct group, so user sees convenience link to “Edit this entry”

  * This link is a URL that looks like this

      http://foobar.uk/system/index.php?C=edit&M=edit_entry&weblog_id=7&entry_id=54

But this results in an error, with the message “You are not authorized to post in this weblog”.

HOWEVER, if the user returns to CP, switched to SiteB, returns to the public side of SiteB and follows the convenience link, then everything works just fine.

QUESTION: Is there a way to switch site by adding something to the query string?

http://foobar.uk/system/index.php?C=edit&M=edit_entry&weblog_id=7&entry_id=54&site_id=2

doesn’t do it.

Suggestions (other than switching to 2.x)?

THANKS VERY MUCH

-C

cbc,

This isn’t a feature included in EE by default so I am moving this thread to the CodeShare Corner for you.
What I would suggest doing however is masking access to your sites. That way you can have a different domain in your URL for each Edit this link

Does that help?

John Henry Donovan:

Perhaps. Will try separate masked location for each site in MLM (there are only two) and point convenience links (Edit this item, add an item) to the masked location.

Will report back with result.

THANKS

John Henry Donovan:

Great thought, thanks. But doesn’t do it. Will continue scratching head.

THANKS

-C

did you ever solve this problem?

It looks like the only way to solve this would be if EE accepted a site_id param in the url.

Is the site_id stored in a cookie or something?  You could possibly have some script that edited the cookie when the user clicked on the edit this link?