6 simple problems

I am new to Midgard. I set up Midgard-AllInOne-1.6.1 on a current Gentoo
Linux install. I later tried to upgrade MidCOM to 2.2.1. It appears to have
failed. You can see the results of my efforts-to-date at
http://test.quicktricks.org <http://test.quicktricks.org/> . I have a few
basic questions that I hope are not difficult to answer.

 

 

1.	How do I tell which version of MidCOM is running (1.6.2??) ? What
information is useful for background when submitting questions to this
group? There seem to be a lot of different components.
2.	I created a group Editor in Aegir and put a new user it that group.
If that user tries to update an existing event, I get the following errors:

a.	Failed to save field URL name: Access denied
b.	Failed to save field Title: Access denied
c.	Failed to save field End Date: Access denied
d.	Failed to save field Description: Access denied

If I try to create an event as this user, it throws an Apache 403 Forbidden
error, saying, "Could not create Article: Access denied"

I see the following options for creating a new group as System Administrator
at SGO level for the site in question:


Permissions:


Approve websites




View Company




View Schedule




View Groups & People




View Websites




View Styles




View News & Articles




View Snippet




View Tools




View Change Log




View Image Gallery




View Website Stats




View File Sync



I would expect that I should see some permissions that to grant create/write
abilities for content contributors. I tried checking the boxes and leaving
them unchecked at different times, but I still get the same results. Putting
the user in the site sysadmin group allows full access to the site and works
fine, except that I don't want to give all these permissions to an Editor.

 

MidCOM admin doesn't seem to have options to create users and groups at all
that I could find.

 

3.	How do I change the date format from DD/MM/YY to the US standard:
MM/DD/YY? This displays in many places, like Events and <[last-updated>]
4.	How would I go about suppressing (or not displaying) the location
column for an Event?
5.	How can I control the order of the left navi?
6.	I have club managers who will need to update News items. The login
link goes to midcom-admin. I'd like to offer them a WYSIWYG editor. Can
someone point me in a direction that does this?

 

I've read TFM and tutorial as well as blogs, powerpoint presentations, etc.,
but I don't see where the answers to these questions lie. I used
CMSmatrix.org to decide which CMS to implement. Midgard claimed a rather
extensive list of capabilities. I didn't expect it to be simple but I don't
why the users of the system to see that complexity.

 

I'm excited about the potential of this CMS and can't wait to implement
polls. Thanks in advance for helping.

 

Cheers,

Alan