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good afternoon EE’eers,

first of all, let me state that I have gone thru the docs and tried to find an answer, but I could not come up with a valid solution.

the problem is as follows: I have a section called “handouts”. The actual handouts that are to be made available via that section are personalized to the end user and I would like to have a generic URL available for all users, say domain.com/handouts/

the idea: a user goes to domain.com and logs in, then clicks on “handouts” and is presented with his (or her) very own handout. no special deep links, no extras, just a smart template that takes the member_id / member_group_id / group_id of the user and outputs the content of the template based on that.

now, I know that I could do this by hard-coding the content inside the index template of the “handouts” group, but that somehow defeats the purpose of a CMS, so I am hoping that someone has a better solution, I’d really appreciate that 😊

I think I figured out one way:

* make sure the group of the user is included in the multi-author drop-down

* create a template:

{exp:weblog:entries weblog="clients" limit="15" author_id="CURRENT_USER"}
Title: {title}


Content: {client-body}
{/exp:weblog:entries}

this will display all entries from the current user.

* create an entry and set the author to the user you want said entry to see

its not pretty, but it works 😊

That’s actually not bad.  It assumes a handout can only be associated with a single member.  But if that’s the case- it really isn’t a bad way to go.  Otherwise, I’d make the users categories, or maybe put them in a dropdown or text field.  But neither of those is any easier than what you’re doing.  So if it’s ok to have the author in there as the member the handout is for AND you only want a single handout->single member relationship, I say go with it.

thanks for the additional thoughts Robin,

you are correct in as that a handout is for a single member only and I played a bit with categories, but all of them add additional data to the whole thing that is not needed, this just works 😊