Re: DNN3.1.0 Trouble with Toolbar and Roles

  •  10-18-2005, 9:14 AM

    Re: DNN3.1.0 Trouble with Toolbar and Roles

    Hi Adam
    I don't think I explained my self clear enough.

    Prior to the recent upgrade in the web config we had 3 groups of settings in the CEHtmlEditorProvider section for Admin, Registered & Guest.  In the various portals we have about 40 roles that can edit parts of the portals these users are all registered users but also are members of various other roles each with it own portal specific role (eg. hreditor, fineditor, newseditor etc) that is used to allow the editing of specifc content some users have a combination of roles.  Prior to the upgrade if someone with one or more of the editor roles went into say a text module that they were allowed to edit, they would see the editor configured per the settings in the web.config for 'Registered_...'.

    After upgrading all these same users when they go into the same module it allows them to edit but the editor only shows 'bold|Italic|Left|Center|Right', which appears to be the toolbars in the 'Light.config' though the Auto configure settings in the web.config only refer to Full & Simple. 

    Now if I go and add a section in the web.config like the 'Registered' section for EVERY role the user is a member of, they will then see the full editor.  This means even after using the trimmed down settings we have to add 40 entries to the web.config and also add an entry each time a portal administrator adds another role that could be used for editing.  The result is a loss of control for the portal admins and increased overhead for support.

    Whilst it is nice to be able to granular control in the editor configuration we don't want to be forced into doing it for every role under every portal.  We still want the config to operate as it did before where we could include the 3 lots of config items like your example and if someone is a Registered User, but not an administrator they would pick up the 'registered_...' settings even if they were also members of other roles which allowed them to edit a module.

    Hope this clarifies things.

    Antony
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