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[#439] Tie In To The Backend Users

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Created By: Anthony Graddy (agraddy)
Date Submitted: 2006-03-09 19:54

Assigned To: Robert Campbell (calguy1000)
Resolution: None
State: Closed
Summary:
Tie In To The Backend Users
Detailed Description:
Allow for a way to interface frontend users with the backend  system. 

For instance, setup a group in the backend called "FrontEndUsers". Whenever
somebody registers with the frontend, they are automatically added to the
backend FrontEndUsers group.

It would also be nice to be able to have a single login. Meaning if you login to
the frontend, you also automatically start a session in the backend.

An example for a use of this would be if you have a group site where members
have a specific page that they can edit. When they login to the FrontEnd system
they will automatically be logged in to the backend system as well. The {edit}
smarty tag  could be available on each page where a user has editing ability.
All they have to do to edit their page is click on the link.

I think I read somewhere in the main forums where this is planned. I just wanted
to make sure it got on the feature request system.

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Date: 2006-03-11 17:38
Posted By: Anthony Graddy (agraddy)

An additional thought would be to combine the FrontEndUsers table with the
backend users. This would mean that there would be only one user table instead
of separate ones. For people who you just want to see the frontend, maybe have
an access check performed before the entire backend is shown. Meaning, you could
block whole user groups from accessing the backend.
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Date: 2006-04-13 10:56
Posted By: Robert Campbell (calguy1000)

We could optionally pull the backend users (except for admin group users) into
the frontend easily enough, that would be the quicker and easier way to do it. 
As the backend user model is alot lighter than the one feusers uses.
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Date: 2006-04-13 11:11
Posted By: Anthony Graddy (agraddy)

That would work too (although it would be nice to include admin group users
instead of excluding them). It seems unintuitive to me to have to login to the
same website twice. Once if I want to access front end content and once if I
want to access the backend admin.

Let me give you a scenario of how I would like to use it. I have a club that I
am a member of and I would like to create a website using CMSMS for the club.
Only members of the club should have access to certain pages and certain members
of the club need to be able to edit their own pages. For instance, there is a
history section of the club that only members should be able to see. I would
like for the member in charge of keeping track of the history of the club to be
able to edit only the history page.

By combining the feusers with the admin users, I could put an {edit} tag at the
bottom of the history page so that whenever the person in charge of history logs
into the front end, they will see that they can edit their page (the user will
be added as an additional editor for the page).

Hopefullly this scenario makes sense. If you have any questions, let me know (I
am monitoring this feature request).

Thanks for all of your great work.
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Date: 2006-06-16 19:39
Posted By: Edouard Geuten (grima)

Is there any news about this ?

I critically need this features, so if there's no code yet, i'll try to get a
not-so-ulgy hack working.
Updates

Updated: 2014-04-26 12:24
resolution_id: => 5
state: Open => Closed