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I need to allow a member edit rights on a specifiic category group.

I found that to do this I can to allow channel administration, access to the category group and allow to edit categories.

I there a way to give access to edit an individual category group’s categories without giving access to channel fields etc… ?

Hi Monarobase,

Thanks for posting to the forums!

ExpressionEngine doesn’t offer that level of fine-grained permissions. Are you concerned about them making an entry they shouldn’t? You can change the way the Publish/Edit page works based on Member Group by using Publish Layouts. Change the layout for the group to hide all the fields.

Cheers,

Hello,

I already use the publish layouts. I’ll try and explain what I’m trying to do exactly, maybe I’m using the wrong approach.

I need to allow my customer to create product type entries and product entries.

The product type entries are shown on a single entry template, and the products are shown in a slideshow on the product type page.

I’ve got two channels :

1) product_types
2) slide_shows

I need for each slide_show entry to be able to specify on what product_type page it will be shown. Each silde being able to be shown on multiple pages.

I need to achieve this without creating seperate channels per slide show.

I’ve allowed my customer to create categories and at the mement they have to input the category_id integer on the product_types channel entries.

I rearly wanted to have a drop down in the entries editor built from the channels with a similar code to this :

<select name="product_type"><option value="5">Product type 5</option><option value="6">Product type 6</option></select>

Instead of having :

<input name="product_type" value="5" />

As an inbetween solutin I was looking to have the categories checkboxes on both slide_shows entries and product_types entries and to only take the first value in the selected checkbox list…

Hi Monarobase,

It sounds like you really want relationships more than Categories.

ExpressionEngine has some relationship functionality built in, but it has some limits.

You really need a way to allow many-to-many relationships. There are a couple of add-ons, Multi Relationships is lightweight and affordable. Pixel & Tonic’s Playa is the Big Kahuna of multi-relationships in ExpressionEngine.

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Thanks, I check it out 😊

My customer has understood the current method of creating a new category, and putting the category id the the product_types entry so I might stick with the current system, but interesting for other projects commeing up anyway !