Restricting access for a resource
All of the resources so far have been created as All Resource Groups (Public). This means that anybody can access the resources. When we assign a resource to some other group, then only the users belonging to that particular group can access it. Now let us change the resource group of Post a Blog to onlyforfriends as follows:
1. Click on the Post a Blog! resource from the document tree.
2. Click on the Edit button.
3. Click on the Access Permissions tab.
4. Enable the onlyforfriends checkbox.
5. Click on the Save button.
User group: Resource group
If you have logged in as samira from the website, log off and preview the Post a Blog! page. You will still see the blog page. This is because when we assign a resource to a resource group, it is still accessible to everyone. Only when a user group is linked to a document group do the permissions become exclusive to that group. Now let us link the Friends user group to the onlyforfriends resource group.
1. Click on the...