Paul,
It should be easy to add a new role(s) for this if you have only
role-specific permissions and nothing more granular than that. Just
create an extension that modifies the User model (in the database and in
the code), providing methods in the manner of "finance?" or
"public_relations?" that test whether a given user has that role. Then
your other interfaces/extensions can add restrictions on those tabs easily.
Sean
Paul Hoehne wrote:
> A question of philosophy
>
> Currently, we're looking at extending radiant for a client whose
> primary need is content. However, they also need some other tools
> specific to not-for-profits. Ideally it would be great to deliver
> everything in one interface. (Content management and applications).
> The applications would live inside the admin interface for radiant,
> utilizing Radiant's login and user-management system. Where we've
> started is with an extension to manage roles and users assigned to
> those roles. What we're trying to extend now is the process of
> displaying tabs for users. For example, only people in the "finance"
> role should see the tab in the admin interface for finance related
> reports, receipts from web donations, etc.
>
> For example, the following code from admin_ui.rb appears to be
> responsible for making the decision to display tabs for users. It
> would be nice to extend the user to read all the available roles in
> our roles table to provide "#{role}?" methods for the available roles.
>
> def shown_for?(user)
> visibility.include?(:all) or visibility.any? { |role| user.send
> ("#{role}?") }
> end
>
> As we look through the code it might not be possible to do everything
> we would like from extensions. Would there be interest in the
> community in re-visiting the user roles to provide for a more
> flexible roles system?
>
> Paul
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Radiant mailing list
> Post: [email protected]
> Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/
> Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
>
>
_______________________________________________
Radiant mailing list
Post: [email protected]
Search: http://radiantcms.org/mailing-list/search/
Site: http://lists.radiantcms.org/mailman/listinfo/radiant
