Permissions Preview

The Graffiti team is nearing the finishing line for the 1.1 release. You will likely see a beta in the next week or two.

One of the most anticipated features of Graffiti 1.1 is a feature we call "Permissions". Permissions allow you (the site administrator) to control the follow access to your content at the category level instead of site wide.

Here is a screen shot of the role/permission page:

Category Permissions

As you can see from the above, we are going to support three different permissions per category:

  • Read - Can the current user view a post in the current category?
  • Edit - Can the current user create/update a post in the current category?
  • Publish - Can the current user publish a post in the current category? In Graffiti 1.0 this would have required the user to be a Manager or Administrator.

The other part we really tried to focus on was making this feature ignorable if you do not want to use it. As you can see from the top of the preview image, permissions can be set across all categories in one location and overridden only when needed.

Note: Everything in this post is subject to change by the actual release.

#1 JimS on 5.09.2008 at 7:41 PM

How does the licensed limit of 10(25) content publishers fit in there? Does the system track/identify 10(25) users marked for Edit/Publish throughout all roles? And users in Read-only roles do not count?!

Thanks

#2 Scott Watermasysk on 5.09.2008 at 9:05 PM

Hi Jim,

Yes, licensing is based on users that have Edit & Publish permissions.

-Scott

#3 Yaheya Quazi on 5.10.2008 at 5:20 PM

People who purchased 1.0 will this upgrade be free for them? If yes, how about future upgrades?

#4 Jeff on 5.12.2008 at 8:15 AM

Scott.. will the permissions be part of the community edition?

#5 Dave on 5.27.2008 at 10:23 AM

Is this almost ready?

#6 Scott Watermasysk on 5.27.2008 at 12:51 PM

Hi Dave,

A beta should be available very shortly.

Thanks,

Scott

#7 Derek on 7.20.2008 at 7:32 PM

Great feature! Using 1.1 beta with roles and permissions - but where do we assign the role of a user? Am I totaly missing something?

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