Thanks for this tutorial but I have a problem as I have the latest DNN Community edition installed and the admin modules do not appear on the module drop down list when trying to add them following this tutorial. I am logged in as host.

Any ideas, please?

Hi Lee that was a really good tutorial helped me loads.
One question though, I've now given staff members ability to add users, and give them roles, all good stuff and in a days work for them managing user access to the website. However they can also now see the 'Manage profile properties' link which I don't really want them playing about with. Presumably to change this I need to dive into the DNN code and switch off the link if they are not administrators. Can you advise where to start on this? I'm experienced in asp .NET but not had a go at customising the DNN code.
Any pointers gratefully recd or maybe you've addressed something like this elsewhere  in another tutorial
Many thanks
Rob

Rob,

If you are lucky, you'll be able to modify the .ascx page to use some server-side processing to suppress that, or other, link or code.

I would recommend that you give your staff members a role like "staff_admin" and use that.

Follow this link over to Snapsis.com for some really good ideas.  Remember that what you can do in a skin you can also do in an ascx page.  I'd do some conditionals to make remove the links for people not hosts or admin.  That would include staff_admin.

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Remember that any changes like this are changes to the core code.  They won't survive upgrades, and you will have to do them after upgrading.  And, the ascx may change.  So, save code, save notes, etc.

User in Member of Staff role see in Pages(tabs) module also administrator’s pages (even user can delete admin pages), this is wrong.

Is here some solution to limit seen admin pages for this user?

Perhaps you want to give Staff privileges to only modify modules?

Hi,

Whe I follow your tutorial and Create a page and put a User Accounts Module on it and give the 'members of staff' "Modify' permissions on it, I can't modify or create users.
I log in with the user with the 'members of staff' role, and I can see the module, and it looks like I can add and modify users.
But if I do create a user, the add user screen remains as it is after I press 'Add user'. No error messages.
Same thing when I try to modify an existing user. The screen appears, I make changes and press 'Save', but when I open the user properties screen again, nothing is changed.

Everything works fine when I log in with the host user..

Can you point me in the right direction to solve this issue?

Thanks!

Regards,

Rik

I think (not entirely sure) that the users must be in the Administrator security role for that module to work correctly.

If I'm wrong, I'd probably need to look at your site to figure it out.

Does this work in DNN7?
1 created a custom role and added a user to this role.
2 created a new page and added user account and security roles to this page
3 gave the permission on the new page for the new user with the role.
4 then ensured manage users was set in both modules. I ensure that view only and manage permissions are for this custom role
5 login as user and all I get are read capability unable to manage users...
any ideas how to get around this or what is the problem...I need my users to be power users.