Beginner Questions about Users and Menus
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I just took a dive into the world of concrete5 and need a little help with the following problems:
1. I did not figure out how to create users and set permissions. When I add a user and try to log in with it there is no gray bar at the top of the homepage. I simply cannot do anything. In "Edit User" there is no way to set permissions and even with a "permission group" I didnt find a place to set permissions. Why is the initial admin account not part of the "Administrators" group?
When I select the account and choose "Edit Properties" in the drop down menu a window pops up with the headline "User Details" but nothing else in it.
concrete 5.4.1.1
Firefox 3.6.13
didnt work on a local easyphp install and a strato web server
2. My Website has a hirarchical structure. The first two levels should be applied to the menu, which is really easy to do with the auto-nav block.
But if I have a structure like this (using "page list" for the news similar to the blog in the example content):
All news have to be subpages of the newspage in order to work with the pagelist block. This would be really ugly in the menu but except for that everything should be reflected in the menu. How is this possible?
thanks,
st4ck0v3rfl0w
1. I did not figure out how to create users and set permissions. When I add a user and try to log in with it there is no gray bar at the top of the homepage. I simply cannot do anything. In "Edit User" there is no way to set permissions and even with a "permission group" I didnt find a place to set permissions. Why is the initial admin account not part of the "Administrators" group?
When I select the account and choose "Edit Properties" in the drop down menu a window pops up with the headline "User Details" but nothing else in it.
concrete 5.4.1.1
Firefox 3.6.13
didnt work on a local easyphp install and a strato web server
2. My Website has a hirarchical structure. The first two levels should be applied to the menu, which is really easy to do with the auto-nav block.
But if I have a structure like this (using "page list" for the news similar to the blog in the example content):
News -some -unimportant -things -happened About Us -blah1 -blah2 -doh Links
All news have to be subpages of the newspage in order to work with the pagelist block. This would be really ugly in the menu but except for that everything should be reflected in the menu. How is this possible?
thanks,
st4ck0v3rfl0w
Note that in addition to per-page permissions, there's also some other permissions you might want to set for various groups in Dashboard -> Sitewide Settings -> Access -> Other Permissions (click the "Click here to modify other permissions." link).
Not sure why your admin user isn't in the Administrators group, but it doesn't matter because Concrete5 treats the "super-user admin" (the first admin account that was automatically created when the site was installed) as special and that special super user can always access everything regardless of groups and permissions.
2) The page list and autonav blocks work a bit differently -- generally the page list just shows a bunch of pages in a list, not in a hierarchical fashion like the auto-nav does. If you want pages to appear in one but not the other, you'll have to set the "Exclude from Nav" or "Exclude from Page List" properties on each page (when adding a new page, choose these from the "Custom Attributes" dropdown -- or if you're editing an existing page, click the "Properties" toolbar button while in edit mode, the click the "Custom Attributes" tab, then choose from the "Custom Attributes" dropdown).
Hope that helps.
-Jordan