Sneak Peek: User Groups in Interspire Website Publisher 5.0 (Coming Soon)

Published January 12, 2009 by Mitchell Harper

Continuing on from my last blog post which showed a quick overview of features in the upcoming release of Interspire Website Publisher 5.0, today I thought I'd share a few screenshots of how user groups are created - mainly focusing on the extremely flexible permissions system with allow and deny permissions for anything and everything in the control panel.

Obvious the first step to create a new user group is to choose the option from the "User Accounts" menu:



Clicking the "Create a Group..." button from the main groups page...



...takes me to the "Create a Group" screen:



After I give the group a name, I can click the "Add Permission..." button to setup permissions for users in this group. Doing so brings up the following dialog box:



This is where the power lies in the new permissions system of version 5. I have full allow/deny permissions over everything, right down to the granular level of a specific item (such as a specific blog post or media release).

If I wanted to deny users in this group access to anything except being able to edit 2 particular blog posts, I would add the following two permissions:


First, deny access to everything


Then, allow edit access to just 2 specific blog posts which I've selected

Of course I can keep adding different permissions for this group for as long as I like. I've setup a few custom content types: blogs, press releases, photos, etc, and here are the permissions I've set for those items:



Red = Deny - users do not have permission
Green = Allow - users do have permission

You can see there's also a little edit icon next to each permission so you can make changes if required:



So that's a quick overview of groups in the upcoming release of Interspire Website Publisher 5.0 - as you can see they're not only powerful in terms of permissions but also very easy (and fun) to configure!

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6 Responses to "Sneak Peek: User Groups in Interspire Website Publisher 5.0 (Coming Soon)"

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JohnH at 13 Jan 2009 3:23:59 AM CST

JohnH ( Author/Admin) said this on 13 Jan 2009 3:23:59 AM CST Hi Mitch, I can see a 'Categories' Tab under 'Add a New Group Permission'. Is this where you can allocate allowed Categories to a Content Type in order to allow User A the ability to manage, say, 'Sports' news and User B 'Business' news, where 'news' is the content type? Or do you need to replicate your content types to have 'News - Sports' and 'News - Business' in order to allocate permissions to each? (Reply to this comment) (Cancel this reply) (Comment Replies Disabled)

Mitchell Harper at 13 Jan 2009 4:18:17 PM CST

Mitchell Harper ( Author/Admin) said this on 13 Jan 2009 4:18:17 PM CST Hi John. That's exactly right - you can limit users in a particular group to only be able to add and/or edit and/or delete and/or approve content types (whatever you create such as blogs and/or press releases and/or articles and/or podcasts) in one/more/all categories using the new permissions system - it's one of the best features in version 5 IMHO. (Reply to this comment) (Cancel this reply) (Comment Replies Disabled)

Dipo at 14 Jan 2009 9:38:39 AM CST

Dipo ( Author/Admin) said this on 14 Jan 2009 9:38:39 AM CST Hi, Mitch.... Please release this product ASAP, I cant wait any longer....I need this NOW! The possibilities are endless, I've already started pushing out proposals to clients promising them all these features you've promised us and everyone is waiting...PLEASE RELEASE IWP 5.0 NOW!!!! (Reply to this comment) (Cancel this reply) (Comment Replies Disabled)

Jamie at 14 Jan 2009 4:25:42 PM CST

Jamie ( Author/Admin) said this on 14 Jan 2009 4:25:42 PM CST I can't take it anymore, no more teasing, let us play! lol When will this be released??? (Reply to this comment) (Cancel this reply) (Comment Replies Disabled)

Mike at 23 Jan 2009 7:29:13 AM CST

Mike ( Author/Admin) said this on 23 Jan 2009 7:29:13 AM CST Please, please, please hurry hurry hurry.....the guys above are not alone! We need this now!!! (Reply to this comment) (Cancel this reply) (Comment Replies Disabled)

Warren at 19 Feb 2009 3:27:40 PM CST

Warren ( Author/Admin) said this on 19 Feb 2009 3:27:40 PM CST Hi Mitch I love the new beta version, can you maybe add a seperate ideas lab page for it as there are some features i would love to see and also some features in old version that are not in the new one. Cheers Warren (Reply to this comment) (Cancel this reply) (Comment Replies Disabled)

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