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7/7/2006 2:35 PM
 
Dan Ball

Joined: 1/31/2005
Posts: 771

I have a question that I hope someone can answer...

Right now I have a Text/HTML module on my home page, and specified that it should appear on ALL pages.  I use this for emergency notifications for all website viewers.  I turned off the display of the container, and left the module text blank.  This essentially makes the module hidden to all users until I type something in the module.

This has been working pretty good so far, whenever there is some news that has to go out, I type it in and it shows on every page on the website.  When the announcement is no longer needed, I delete the text and it disappears from view.

The problem arises in that because the module container is not displayed, the "edit text" link is not visible either for people allowed to edit the module.  So, as it stands, only administrators of the website can edit the module.  When I turn the container display back on, the module shows on all pages with no text and causes confusion.

I'd like to change this so that designated users can edit the module themselves so that they don't need to call me in the middle of the night to do it for them.  Anyone know how I could do this?

 
 
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7/7/2006 9:26 PM
 
Edward Beck

Joined: 2/1/2006
Posts: 190

Do you turn off display by setting the visible setting for all users on and off?  Maybe put the designated users in a new role and assign view to them discretely as well as edit, and turn on/off the view permissions on "all users" as needed. 

EDIT - that way they would always see it and could edit, but only when something needs to go public is that setting changed (they could set that as well if they have module admin). 

You could set view permissions to all, and turn off the container - if nothing is in there, nothing appears - at least in announcements module I just tested.  This doesn't appear to work for Text/HTML and gives me an error on the page. 

 
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7/7/2006 11:05 PM
 
Dan Ball

Joined: 1/31/2005
Posts: 771

I have the container turned off, and the view set to "same as page".  I ran into some problems because the people that would be doing the updates get easily confused and I'd end up with messages not being displayed when they should or being displayed when they shouldn't.  That is why I was hoping that they'd still be able to edit the module even if the container was turned off, then they wouldn't have to deal with permissions changes.

I'll try your suggestion of using the Announcements module, maybe that will work.
 
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7/8/2006 1:26 AM
 
Edward Beck

Joined: 2/1/2006
Posts: 190

You'll probably run into the same issues - but it's worth trying.  I thought the normal users (not editors) were the ones getting confused, but the editors are - I'm not sure how you'd do it.  Maybe a separate page that is hidden to all except the editors, then using the announcements module they would have edit access to the module on that page, but not on the others.  Then the containers might stay hidden on the normal pages, but they'd always see them on teh editing page. 

That might provide enough segregation for them not to get confused, since they only go to that page when they need to enter a message.  All other times - if empty - they and all others don't see the module.  Version 4.3.2 has some different settings on module copies than the older versions - might have some usefulness there as well. 

 
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