Edit privilege on a publisher portlet

Question

Hi,
I am using Publisher 6.2 and created a Data Template, Content Item and Presentation Template. I also created a portlet to access the content item. Now I want to give a group of users "Edit" only permissions on this portlet so that they can edit the content of the portlet (content item) and publish it. When I give appropriate security level in Publisher (Submitter and above) and "Edit" privilege on the portlet for the group of users, still the Edit button in the portlet title bar is not enabled. The Edit button in the title bar of the portlet is enabled only if the users are given "Admin" privilege on the portlet. But "Admin" privilege allows the users to do many other things like changing security, properties and even deleting the portlet; which is not very desirable.
Is there any other way of getting this done?
Thanks
Sreeram

Answer 1

For more advanced portlets like news portlets you can modify the code of the index page to conditionaly add an edit button. The users still need edit access in publisher.
code:
<pcs:if expr="create">
<pt:standard.choose>
  <pt:standard.when pt:test="stringToACLGroup('group=2430;').isMember($currentuser)">
<!--start ACTION BAR -->
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
     <tr class="actionbarObjectBg">
          <td height="25" align="right" class="actionbarObjectBtn" nowrap>
          {a href="#" onClick="create<pcs:value expr="pcs_id"></pcs:value>();return false;" title="Create an Article"
               ><pcs:html:img expr:src="newContentIcon.location" expr:width="newContentIcon.image.width" expr:height="newContentIcon.image.height" attr:align="absmiddle" attr:border="0" style="UNARY"></pcs:html:img
               ><span  class="actionbarText"> Create Article</span></a>
          </td>
          <td> </td>
     </tr>
     </form>
</table>
<!--end ACTION BAR -->
  </pt:standard.when>
  <pt:standard.otherwise>
  </pt:standard.otherwise>
</pt:standard.choose>  
</pcs:if>
[/pre]
notice the <pt:standard.when pt:test="stringToACLGroup('group=2430;').isMember($currentuser)"> line that's checking against group membership
Edited by drdlord at 04/10/2007 8:50 AM
Edited by drdlord at 04/10/2007 8:51 AM