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MODx Web Development - Second Edition

You're reading from  MODx Web Development - Second Edition

Product type Book
Published in Feb 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849513487
Pages 288 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Toc

Table of Contents (19) Chapters close

Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. www.PacktPub.com
2. Preface
1. What is MODx? 2. Getting Started 3. MODx Basics 4. Templating 5. Authentication and Authorization 6. Content Aggregation 7. Creating Lists 8. Snippets 9. PHx 10. Simple Recipes 11. Creating Snippets 12. SEO, Deployment, and Security 13. Plugins and Modules 14. MODx Revolution

Post moderation


It will be helpful if we can delegate the role of moderating blogs to someone else. The user must only be able to manipulate the resources (Edit or Delete) from the Manager interface, and should not be able to perform any other activity. There are two points to note here:

  • Able to manipulate resources from the Manager interface—must be a Manager user type

  • Not able to perform any other activity—create a custom role only for manipulating resources

Creating a role

Let us create a role called Blog Moderators who can only edit resources.

  1. 1. Click on the Roles menu item of the Security menu.

  2. 2. Click on Create/edit role and fill in the following information:

    Field Name

    Field Value

    Role name

    Blog Moderators

    Description

    Role type that allows only administration of documents

  3. 3. Enable the following checkboxes in Content management:

    • Edit a Resource

    • Delete Resources

  4. 4. Click on the Save button.

Creating a Manager user

Let us create a Manager user called blogmoderator1, who will moderate all...

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