Forum OpenACS Development: Re: acs_rels: why and when to use

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Posted by Randy Ferrer on

jajajaja. Ok...scary thing is I think I follow you Tom. Ok - let me see if I can make this example even clearer. Here are the users on my system and what they will be able to see.

  • Public user - This user can see content for which no registration is necessary. Like forum, blog etc. has no write permissions anywhere.
  • Registered user - This user can comment on blogs, forums and can do the general stuff most registered users do like on say openacs.org
  • Group A Viewer - This viewer is a registered user who is also permissioned by virtue of being a member of Group A, to view content on a specific package - let's call it "Special Reports". So this package generates specific reports for different viewers. Let's say this group is the Southeast Marketing group and they will see the Southeast Market Sales Reports. Registered users who are members of this group are the only one's who can see this content.
  • Group B Viewer - This viewer sees the Northeast Market Sales Reports.
  • And so on....

An admin can then make a user part of the group for the reports they are authorized to view. I'll need to read all this again - now I'm confused again - not that it was clear to begin with...jajajaja. Does you description help achieve this???