Hi,

 

I am new to the cuteeditor and we just bought this control for our development team. What I was wondering is if there is a way to specify who can upload files/images to where ever and then only view their uploaded files/images? I have th control set up to upload images to uploads folder now with the gallery folder being the same, but what I want to do is when a user clicks on the gallery or insert image, automatically filter the viewable selection based on some codebehind from our rolebased system. Any help would be great,

Please refer to http://cutesoft.net/example/implementSecuritypolicy.aspx , you can find its source code in installation package.

 

Regards,

Eric

ASPMan,

 

Yes, you can specify the different security policy file for different users. You can also set different security option for different users/roles.

 

The security policy file (default.config, admin.config and guest.config) can be found in the /CuteEditor/Configuration/Security folder. In security policy file you can find the different security options. By default, it contains the following value:

<security name ="AllowUpload" >true</security>
<security name ="AllowModify" >true</security> 
<security name ="AllowRename" >true</security> 
<security name ="AllowDelete">true</security> 
<security name ="AllowCopy">true</security>
<security name ="AllowMove">true</security> 
<security name ="AllowCreateFolder">true</security> 
<security name ="AllowDeleteFolder">true</security>

 

So far this is has been a great start between the suggestions you guys made here to adding in functionality to handle file prefix feature, I have set it up to seperate the images/files by directory and then added the prefix to further define who can view what within the directory.

 

One more question I have though is how do I change the users role from code behind? As in if I want to change user X to have Admin access from code, I havent been able to find examples of this functionality.

You need to implement your own methods based on your project to detect the current user security role, GetSecurityRoleFromYourAPP will return user role:

   string userrole= GetSecurityRoleFromYourAPP();
   switch(userrole)
   {
    case "Administrators":
     Editor1.SecurityPolicyFile  = "Admin.config";
     SetUploadsFolder("~/Uploads/");
     break;
    case "Members":
     Editor1.SecurityPolicyFile  = "default.config";
     SetUploadsFolder("~/Uploads/Member/");
     break;
    case "Guest":
     Editor1.SecurityPolicyFile  = "Guest.config";
     SetUploadsFolder("~/Uploads/Guest/");
     break;
  //  case "Banned":
  //   Editor1.ReadOnly = true;
  //   break;
     case "John":
     Editor1.SecurityPolicyFile  = "Admin.config";
     SetUploadsFolder("~/Uploads/Users/John/");
     break;
    case "Mary":
     Editor1.SecurityPolicyFile  = "default.config";
     SetUploadsFolder("~/Uploads/Users/Mary/");
     break;
    case "Tim":
     Editor1.SecurityPolicyFile  = "default.config";
     SetUploadsFolder("~/Uploads/Users/Tim/");
     break;
   }

 

 

Regards,

Eric

Thanks this is exactly what I was looking for, just wasnt positive on the syntex used to switch the security policy. Got it now.

 

Thanks