Re: Site Admin, Editor role and managing portlets

Hi,

In my own project, if I were you, I'll simply add in sharing a column "Can
manage portlets" that uses the Site Administrator role. Nothing confusing,
explicit. :)
More generally, you can use "Can administrate", something like that.

Vincent Fretin
Ecreall
http://www.ecreall.com


On Fri, Oct 11, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Yuri <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi!
>
> This is the use case: subsites with lineage (but a standard
> navigationroot would apply). I want to give to some users full control
> of the content in their subsite.
>
>   When using sharing, I can assign the role reader, editor, contributor
> and reviewer to an user. This because the sharing is about managing the
> local content.
>
>   But what about portlets? For example, there are a lot of site that
> build the content of a page using add-ons such as ContentWellPortlet,
> but cannot "share" them between users because nor reader,editor,
> contributor or  reviewer can manage portlets, even locally.
>
>   A quick solution could be to give the user the Site Admin role
> locally, but it is not available on sharing and can be confusing because
> "Site Admin" means you can admin the site, isn't it? :)
>
>   What is the best/doable solution?
>
>   - we should give the Editor the possibility of manage portlets, but
> this means Editor could also add portlets, which is not an edit thing
>   - we could give the user the Owner role on the context, so he can
> manage also portlets. Any problem on this?
>   - we can give the user the Site Admin role but the name is confusing
> when we are talking about local roles.
>
> Obviously other mixed/different solutions could be possible, what would
> you do? Focusing on Plone 5, what will be about this topic? I think
> portlets will be available in Plone 5, but we can think about a solution.
>
>   Thanks for sharing any ideas!
>
>
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