Editing Portal Pages and Access Rights

Question

I want to give some specific users the ability to edit certain pages within portal. When I change the page "Access Properties" to "Enable Item Level Security" and then add users under "Change Access" with "Manage Content" as their privilege, I expect Portal to only allow those persons to see the EDIT link for the page. However, I see that ALL users with VIEW privileges can see the EDIT link but nothing is available to them to edit...unless they click on the "Navigator" link and then they can SEE the different page groups. What's more is that there is a link beside each page group to MAKE A COPY of it!
YIKES!!! This is not desirable!
How do I set this up so that only specified users see the EDIT link and only allow these users to edit the page(s)?
Thanks a lot!
Jason

Answer 1

Hi Jason:
I wondered across a blurb on Metalink just last week that mentions if Item level Security is enabled on a page, all users will see the edit link (assuming you have one on the page). Apparently, this is to prevent a performance hit that would occur if the portal had to go through every item on the page to see if that user had edit rights.
One solution would be to disable item level security. Assuming, that isn't possible (it wasn't for us), you could also remove those users' navigator access. That way they won't see the navigator link in edit mode. Finally, depending on how your users are setup, you can also limit access to the edit link if it is on a nav bar for example. I enabled item level security on the nav bar I use and limited access to the edit link to those users I knew had to see the edit link.
Good luck.
Mark M.
Portal 9.0.2.6