I made a page with simple permissions turned on. I then enabled advanced permissions, and allowed another group (not the creator's group) access to write, approve etc (i.e. full editing rights short of admin).
When I try to edit a block on that page, I just see 'Access denied' instead of the editing interface. If I add admin rights to the editor group, I get the same problem.
I also noticed that with simple permissions (and with advanced permissions, where admin is enabled), a user can go in and remove their own permission to edit a given page, which they can't then get back. That can't be right!
1. go to "edit page"
2. click on the block that you want to give permissions too and click "set permissions"
3. Make sure they have permissions to read and write the block.
If its still not working try this...
1. go to "edit page"
2. click on the "add to area"
3. click on "set permissions"
4. make sure they can read and write in there too.
you can even select which blocks you want them to add in this area.
you may have to mess around with those options a bit but it should get you what you want.
if you don't want them to be able to remove their own permissions make sure they don't have admin access. which is when you edit a page click on "permissions" in the c5 tool bar. make sure admin is NOT checked.
Thanks for the reply. Curiously, the problem seems to have resolved itself. I wonder if there was some confusion in the switch between simple and advanced permissions? (I also switched back once or twice, without having read the documentation page which says that this shouldn't be done :O)
I hate to say this, but I've been having lots of problems with advanced permissions, as have others. You'll find another thread about with lots of comments.
1. go to "edit page"
2. click on the block that you want to give permissions too and click "set permissions"
3. Make sure they have permissions to read and write the block.
If its still not working try this...
1. go to "edit page"
2. click on the "add to area"
3. click on "set permissions"
4. make sure they can read and write in there too.
you can even select which blocks you want them to add in this area.
you may have to mess around with those options a bit but it should get you what you want.
if you don't want them to be able to remove their own permissions make sure they don't have admin access. which is when you edit a page click on "permissions" in the c5 tool bar. make sure admin is NOT checked.