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2/28/2007 5:16 AM

Rodney Joyce

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User-level Permissions Modified By Rodney Joyce on 2/28/2007 5:17:27 AM

Hi,

I just got the DNN newsletter and the next release sounds good. I had a brief look over the change log at Gemini a while ago and must have missed this:

User-level Permissions - role-based security is a powerful feature of most web applications but it does not always provide the level of granularity required in all scenarios. For example, what if you want to provide advanced site personalization features like those which are available on most social networking sites (ie. mySpace.com or Live.com?) In this case you need to be able to grant content management rights to individual users, without being required to create a role for each user. To solve this problem, we have enhanced the Permissions area in the application so that you can now provide Users with privileged access to Pages, Modules, and Folders. We expect that by embedding this behavior in the framework, it will create the potential for many new and exciting third party solutions in the DotNetNuke ecosystem.

This is fantastic news - I was actually just about to start a thread after a conversation with another DNN'er over the problems with the core role-based securities and their limitations! Can anyone shed some more light on the solution - I guess you will be able to override the role permissions by assigning specific userIDs to objects?

Can't wait for the next release - the feature I am most looking forward to are the Login querystring parameters fix tho ;)

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2/28/2007 8:03 AM

Jeremy Oldham

Joined: 1/24/2003

Posts: 3

Re: User-level Permissions

Rodney,

This is good news. I can't wait to see how this will work. Glad it will finally make it into the core after 3 years. http://forums.asp.net/thread/445617.aspx

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2/28/2007 5:48 PM

Ty A

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Joined: 5/4/2003

Posts: 217

Re: User-level Permissions

this will be a fantastic feature for creating personal pages. do most core modules have exposed procedures for querying against the user?

3/1/2007 4:36 AM

Rodney Joyce

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Re: User-level Permissions

Yes, this is the actually problem that non-techies don't understand - every module will need to be modified to store the UserID against the record and provide the correct retrieval methods and handling to make use of this. Unless you make a new instance of each module of course, but the first solution would be more scaleable.

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3/2/2007 7:00 PM

timmlock

Joined: 12/31/2006

Posts: 2

Re: User-level Permissions

Hi Rodney,

I'm a non-techie who's not to clear about user level permissions - I thought maybe you can help me. I'm running DNN 04.04.00.
Right now I'm building child portals that service groups of 10-15 people. The objective to give each of these people a chance to share info with the group in a secure setting. So I use the private registration option - works great. I then go in and setup a security role for each one (feasible in such a small environment). So when I validate there registration. I connect the user file to the role which is tied to a specific page I launch for each user that has the edit tab clicked (the pages are viewable to all registered members). The problem is when a person logs in and clicks on their specific page:
1. all panes are viewable(even though they're empty).
2. The image gallery reflects all the images in the portal - no good.
3. The shortcut menus for page functions, modules, and common tasks displays - gain giving access of that stuff to members is no good.

Do you think 4.5 will solve these problems?
If not do you know of any 3rd party programs that might?
Also I'd like to allow other users to post simple text messages on each others pages. Forums is way to complex - and suggestions on something simpler?

Any help/suggestion you may have is great - Timm

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