[opencms-dev] Question about Projects and Userrights

[Sven Dittmar]

Hi,

we are running OpenCMS 51beta2 on a debian box (dual pentium, 1GB ram) 
with JDK 1.4 and its running fine.

We want to switch from out "800-ftp-account-webserver" to OpenCMS with 
templates and publishing possibilites and I am evaluating right now.

We have groups of users from multiple University instituts and would 
like to announce one projectmanager for each of this groups to maintain 
most in their group *without* a central administrator (us! :-)).

So I am going to tell you, what I did so far:

I want to have a number of accounts (sb1, sb2, sb3) in a usergroup SB. 
Done as admin. This works fine.

Now I want to give the projectmanager sb1 the right to add and edit 
templates for the group SB and only a subdirectory in the directory 
structure.

As Adminuser I created the subdirectories for the SB group and "gave 
them" to the group SB.

Now my problems start. :-)

Intuitively I created a "Project SB" as well and set the preferences for 
the sb-accounts to start with Project SB. But all the folders are marked 
grey and are not editable for them.

Q1: How do I make this folders in the Projekt SB modifieable for them?

Q2: The sb-users can't see the template folders (only Admin can). How 
can I enable sb1 to change/add templates only for its subdirectories?

Q3: the sb-users can see all folders, can I restrict the folderlist to a 
list of folder they are "member" of?

Q4: Could a Projectmanager be enabled to add new users oder maintain the 
current one in his/her area/ subdirectories?

Or is there a different approach to solve this kind of grouping trouble?

Thanks for any input here.

Best Regards,
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Sven Dittmar, RUS Infodienste ------ mailto:dittmar at rus.uni-stuttgart.de
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