Introduction

The userview Permission Menu allows you to configure category permissions for user-defined groups at run-time. This feature does away with the need to go into the userview builder to manually set the permission for every menu category.

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Figure 1: Permission Menu in Userview

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Figure 2: Configuring permission - Add User - Permission Menu in Userview

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Figure 3: Permission Menu Properties

Name

Description

Custom ID

Item link slug. Optional field.

Value defined here must be unique to the rest of the Userview Menus as the first matching name will be called upon.

Label

Menu label. Mandatory field.

Page Title

Page title on Permission Menu page.

Permissions

Permission Key

Id to match against userview categories.

See Figure 3 & 7 for reference.

Permission Label

Permission list name. See Figure 1 & 3 for reference.

Category

Group label. Category to group similar permission labels under.

See Figure 1 & 3 for reference.

Optional Field.

Enable Refined Controls?

Allows administrators to implement intricate user permission configurations per group.

If you are using external directory manager such as the LDAP Directory Manager, you must enable this option to use this Manage Permission menu.

Once this feature is enabled, only users with administrative access can manage the permission.

As opposed to Figure 2, when configuring permission, you will be brought to the following screen for finer permission control.

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Figure 4: Enabled Refined Controls

In the userview category that you wish to manage its permission via this plugin, edit the category's permission as shown in figure 5.

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Figure 5: Adding permission to an userview category

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Figure 6: Change "Permission Type" to grant permission to Permission Menu

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Figure 7: Assigning "Permission Key" to Category to match against in Permission Menu

After setting up the Permission Menu, remember to configure all the respective userview categories.

Note that, multiple categories can use the same permission key. Setting up as such will grant multiple categories to a permission group.