Hi,

Is it possible to limit what functionality is available in the Admin menu?

I want to be able to authorise a user to add new pages but don't want to give them access to any of the other functionality such as roles, skins, etc. Is it possible to make just the "Pages" function available to a user?

Any help appreciated as usual!

Regards,

Marcus.

Hello,

If you had asked me this 2 months ago I would have pointed you to Snowcovered or suggest that you do not do it.  However, I have recently been delving into the database tables and have found this solution for you.

Test this on a local host installation first.

Open the database for your DotNetNuke installation
go to the tabs table and open this table
look in the tab name column for the menu items that you wish the users access to
ie. We will look for the 'Tabs' TabName

In my installation the 'Tabs' page has a Tabid of 40
- make a note of the tab ID for your installation


go to your DotNetNuke installation, login as host or admin
go to admin menu / tabs
click on a current page listed and click on the edit pencil icon

View the URL that is created for editing this page
now edit the URL and change the tab ID to the tab ID for the admin page that you wish to edit

ie.
http://localhost/igfilm_dnn453/Abou...fault.aspx

becomes:

http://localhost/igfilm_dnn453/AboutUs/tabid/40/ctl/Tab/action/edit/returntabid/40/Default.aspx

(we have changed the tab id from 54 to 40)

- click on go in the browser window

This will now open the page settings for the 'tabs' page

You can now specify which security roles can view the page and even specify where the page should be placed in the menu. - if I was doing this I would set up a new 'admin' page and then move the tabs page underneath this new admin page and then setup these pages just to be viewable by the security roles that you require.

Hope that helps,

Thanks

Thanks Lee,

What a great solution! It works a treat...

I'm going to use this method with the SeeleyWare SW.MENU control which allows me to apply CSS styles to individual menu items.

Cheers,

Marcus.

No problem, I haven't heard of that menu.  Can you give me some information about it? - how well does it work with DNN? do you have any example URLs? do you have a URL for SeeleyWare?

Thanks,

Hi Lee,

I've only used the SW.Menu trial version but it looks very good.

I've had this big problem for ages about how to style each individual menu item. You may remember that you suggested a solution by using the IE toolbar to get the menu Id and then adding a specific class for this. The big problem with this is that it is a programatic change and not something that an administrator could do. Also because the menu item id's are dynamic I was a bit wary in case the Id's change at any point.

The seeleyware menu is a module that can be dynamic (based on the DNN menu structure and security) as well as being able to add static menu items. Each menu item has it's own css class. It looks great! The only downside that I can see is that it doesn't incorporate the Admin and Host menu items but it's on the cards apparently.

Have a look at www.seeleyware.com

Cheers,

Marcus