Hello,

Am I correct in my understanding that only Hosts/Administrators and user groups who have been assigned page edit rights can see a module's 'Settings' menu item (i.e. simply assigning a user group module edit rights without page edit rights is not sufficient for them to see a modules 'Settings' menu item)?

I have a number of custom module settings that I wish to be able to set at runtime. As per articles elsewhere I created a settings control that appears at the bottom of the Module Settings page which works fine for Administrators. The thing is I'd also like certain other authorized users to be able to update these custom settings, but not have access to all the other standard module settings (e.g. those that control module permissions and appearance etc.). I was hoping to reuse the settings control that I developed. Here's how I've proceeded but I have a couple of questions.

I created a custom permission that appears on the Module Settings page alongside the existing 'View Module' and 'Edit Module' permissions (e.g. 'Edit Custom Settings'). Administrators use this to set which user groups have permissions to edit my custom module settings.

I then added an 'Edit Custom Settings' menu item to my module (using ModuleActions) which I intend only to display to users with 'Edit Custom Settings' permissions. The menu item is supposed to redirect the user to a page into which the Settings control would be loaded (e.g. using either the EditURL or NavigateURL method). However I'm running into a couple of problems from my lack of understanding of the actions.Add method - particularly the [CmdName], [SecurityAccessLevel] and [Visible] parameters:

actions.Add(GetNextActionID, "Edit Custom Settings", [CmdName]?, "", "", EditUrl("Settings"), False, [SecurityAccessLevel]?, [Visible]?, False)

From a bit of digging around the CmdName parameter is where you're supposed to place the name of a command if you want your menu item to call client-side code (JavaScript) - however this also seems to effect whether or not the menu item appears as a button in the module footer? What are the implications of setting it to one value over another?

What shoud the SecurityAccessLevel parameter be set to is - I note that there are DotNetNuke.Security.SecurityAccessLevel.View and DotNetNuke.Security.SecurityAccessLevel.Edit values but I'm not sure how they relate to my situation but I guess they effect if/how the menu item might appear? What is the most appropraite setting?

Finally how should the value of the Visible parmeter be determined? Should I check whether or not the current user has "Edit Custom Settings" permissions and set the Visible to be true if the have (otherwise set it to false)?

Thanks,

Norman