And hello again

 

I understand that I can create different configurations for different roles.
Does that also mean dotnetnuke roles?

 

The provider appears to have roles called Admin, Registered and Guest. But These are not roles in the portal, they seem to be arbitraty terms for an admin, anyone signed in and anyone not signed in... is that correct?

 

And then, what is required in order to apply a config for a particular role that is in one of the portals in my DNN portal system. Do I simply add another section named by the role name to the web config and can I then also add another config file of the same name to the Security folder.. and does it then just automatically connect itself to the DNN role of that name?

 

I'll run out of questions eventually :)

 

I'm really trying hard to assess if this can replace FCK without losing too much functionality.

Rob

Rob,

 

>>But These are not roles in the portal, they seem to be arbitraty terms for an admin, anyone signed in and anyone not signed in... is that correct?

 

 

If the User doesn't belong to any role, the user will be treated a guest user. By default, guest user will have very limited toolbar, access.

 

>>Do I simply add another section named by the role name to the web config and can I then also add another config file of the same name to the Security folder.. and does it then just automatically connect itself to the DNN role of that name?

 

 

Yes.

 

For your situation, you need to modify the web.config file and add the custom security setting for your custom role.

 

Let us assume your custom role name is: Author.

 

Just copy the following code into the web.config file.

 

     Author_AutoConfigure = "Full"
     Author_SecurityPolicyFile = "admin.config"
     Author_TemplateItemList = ""
     Author_DisableItemList = ""
     Author_AllowPasteHtml  ="true"
     Author_EditorOnPaste  = "default"
     Author_ReadOnly = "false"
     Author_ShowBottomBar ="true"
     Author_ShowHtmlMode  ="true"
     Author_ShowPreviewMode  ="true"
     Author_EnableStripScriptTags  ="false" 
     Author_EnableContextMenu    ="true"  
     Author_EnableContextMenuEditing  = "true"  
     Author_EnableContextMenuFormat   = "true"
     Author_EnableContextMenuInsert  = "true"
     Author_EnableContextMenuInsertAdvanced  = "true"
     Author_EnableContextMenuInsertFiles = "true"
     Author_EnableContextMenuInsertForms = "true"
     Author_EnableContextMenuRelative = "true"
     Author_EnableContextMenuTags = "true"
     Author_EnableContextMenuVerbs = "true"

 

Please note that in the above code the security policy file used by "Author" is the admin.config.

 

You can easiy create a custom security policy file and assign it to "Author".

Cool thanks Adam,

 

I'll go and test a custom setup for a particular role. I'm wondering if this might fail because some roles, e.g. "Content Manager" have spaces in their names. The way that code in the web config has underscores makes me think it might not work.

 

I'll give it a shot anyhow and see.

Rob

Yep, I added the bits below and it crashed

 

  Content Manager_AutoConfigure = "Full"
  Content Manager_SecurityPolicyFile = "admin.config"
  Content Manager_TemplateItemList = ""
  Content Manager_DisableItemList = ""
  Content Manager_AllowPasteHtml  ="true"
  Content Manager_EditorOnPaste  = "default"
  Content Manager_ReadOnly = "false"
  Content Manager_ShowBottomBar ="true"
  Content Manager_ShowHtmlMode  ="true"
  Content Manager_ShowPreviewMode  ="true"
  Content Manager_EnableStripScriptTags  ="false"
  Content Manager_EnableContextMenu    ="true"  
  Content Manager_EnableContextMenuEditing  = "true"  
  Content Manager_EnableContextMenuFormat   = "true"
  Content Manager_EnableContextMenuInsert  = "true"
  Content Manager_EnableContextMenuInsertAdvanced  = "true"
  Content Manager_EnableContextMenuInsertFiles = "true"
  Content Manager_EnableContextMenuInsertForms = "true"
  Content Manager_EnableContextMenuRelative = "true"
  Content Manager_EnableContextMenuTags = "true"
  Content Manager_EnableContextMenuVerbs = "true"    

 

 

Is there a way to deal with the space in the role name perhaps?

Rob

Is this still the case or is there a work around?

 

H

Is that the FCK thats been tweaked by dnn?

 

How do you find it for cross browser support? Thats the main reason I was looking at Cute.

 

H

Yes, either upgrade to DNN 4.9.2 or download and install the current FCK package off the DNN downloads page. The version of FCK included in it now works across all browsers, including Safari, Chrome and Opera. The context menus are different in different browsers, but that's about the only variation.

Rob