Dear community,

I am excited. 2 months ago, i didn't know anything (zero) about asp.net and dnn. I learnt so much.

I am setting up a website that will allow site users to create their own portals. I am using Portal Signup Module that gives me the option of making the user an admin or non-admin. I decided to still make the user who created the portal the admin (cuz that is easier as i understand it) but limit his/her access to certain admin menu (for instance i want to remove "Site Log" and "Event Viewer" and "Skins") depending on the level of membership.

I read somewhere that the "superuser" has a Role ID of -2 and i am assume that the "admin" has probably a Role ID too. I read also that i can run a SQL script to to modify permissions, Roles, or whatever in the db table. Having mastered from the "clickable" stuff within dnn, this is where i want to play with now. I know some of you may say "if you are not a programmer, don't mess with the db tables"....but i learnt a lot these couple of weeks by pushing the envelope.

I want one of your genuises to give me a script that i can run from "host" -->SQL page within DNN that will allow me to hide or remove "Site Log" or "Event Viewer" from the admin menu for example. But only when the admin is logged. I still want to see those when i (as a superuser) am logged in.

Another option someone suggested was for me to make the new users non-admin and put them in a role i defined. That is not a problem. I can create the "portal owners" role. But then, i don't know how to put some of the admin menu (i.e. Site Settings, Security Roles, Vendors, Newsletters...or whatever i decided to allow) into this new role i created "Portal Owners"

I hope i made myself clear as i am someone who just started getting his feet wet few weeks ago.

thanks in advance.

I would suggest that a better option would be to create a new user group and a menu section for them so if you don't want the 'admin' user to have access to everything. Create a menu called site admin adding into that menu the items that you want to allow them to access. I believe that dnn creative has a tutorial on this somewhere.

It wouold make more sense to do this to me as if you make a mistake with the siteadmin group you still have the admin group to work from.

Please Help on the above issue.

I am still waiting for an answer i can accept from the community.

Either how to remove some options from the "admin menu" using a SQL script. I run the above script to remove the "Site Log", but it still shows up on the admin even though the script was executed successfully.

or How to add some admin menu to a newly created page available to a defined user group (say Portal Owners). The idea is to allow users create their own portal but not give them full admin access.

thanks a lot......waiting....waiting...waiting.....hoping some of the dnn experts will help me