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I am fairly new to EE but i have inherited a EE site that was setup where everyone is a super admin.  Kind of scary right!!!  Well i want to go in a setup things as they should be.  I was reading through the book on EE2 by Ryan Irelan and came across the example of the newspaper with writers and editors and realized that is what we want here.  Are there any issues that i need to look at if i wanted to implement this on an up and running site? Do any EE experts have some suggestion before i head down this path or should i take a different approach?  thanks for your help.

It’s pretty straightforward - you’ll just be creating a new member group, assigning privileges to it, then moving members to that group.

How do you recommend handling situations where a members can have more than one role?  In other words, I can have standard roles like ‘user’ ‘administrator’ ‘content editor’ etc., but what if I have groups like ‘sales reps’, ‘customers’, ‘visitors’, and ‘admins’, but one of the salesmen is also a customer?

I can assign members to one member group.  Do I need to configure groups to cover every possible combination of roles? Isn’t there a better approach? Would it be bad for performance to create a channel for roles and then set up relationships between members and that channel in order to get what I need?

Thanks!

BTW, Mike, you’re advice & training is fantastic, and you’re a great guy to work with!

EE’s security is group-bases and not role-based, so if you have individuals with unique needs either they get two logins or a unique group.

With you other idea I’d be less concerned about performance than development time and management going forward.

Thanks for the comments !