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Currently i use safecracker in combination with author_only="yes" to allow members to publish and edit their own news and edit their info page.

What would be a method / procedure or what would you suggest to allow
multiple members to edit one specific entry (e.g. the info page)?

  • I can't just only remove the author_only parameter and allow all members to edit all info pages. Only assigned members should be able to edit an entry.
  • Is a relationship/playa field on the info-page a possible route? How would you check for access-privileges?

Edit: one approach is with categories but this gives more broad access to editors.
Limit Safecracker access to specific entries, using member groups and categories

Edit2: Possible solution, using a modified version of chosen_member addon
(e.g. added a method to check if logged in user is selected)

{exp:channel entries url_title="segment_3" }
  {if chosen_member_field:is_chosen=="yes"}
    {embed="group/safecracker" entry_id="{entry_id}"}
  {/if}
{/exp:channel:entries}
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  • Where do you want to store the list of the members who will have access to the entries? In the entry itself or in a member group? Or in a global vars?
    – pvledoux
    Dec 5 '13 at 10:49
  • with the solution from edit2, it would be stored in the entry itself. i'm trying to avoid creating lots of member groups. A dedicated category group could be an option, but there are no member select custom fields for categories.
    – GDmac
    Dec 5 '13 at 19:10
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Something like this should work. You have to make a 2 steps verification:

{!-- Ensure user is logged in --}
{if logged_out}
    {redirect="/login"}
{/if}
{!-- Check if user can view this entry --}
{exp:channel:entries
    channel="mychannel"
    disable="custom_fields|categories|category_fields|member_data|pagination|trackbacks"
    dynamic="off"
    require_entry="yes"
}
    {if no_results}{redirect="404"}{/if}
    {exp:pvl_checkif value="{member_id}" is_not_in="{authorized_members}"}{redirect="/unauthorised"}{/exp:pvl_checkif}
{/exp:channel:entries}

{safecracker....}

{authorized_members} is your field containing members list. It should be pipe delimited, or you can use an other delimiter and specify it an the delimiter="" parameter of pvl_checkif.

See the doc of pvl_checkif here.

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  • Nice solution. Note: When not using low- or mo-variables, or my globalmembers plugin, the {if logged_out} is parsed late, and channel entries is still parsed. Note2: inside channel:entries {member_id} is {author_id}, using {logged_in_member_id} gives plugin value a string (e.g. parsed late). Note3. safecracker tag is called before your plugin (and thus before redirect), i like to avoid that (csrf hole).
    – GDmac
    Dec 6 '13 at 12:28
  • Concerning logged_out, I'm not sure, maybe with ifelse plugin from Mark Croxton (github.com/croxton/Ifelse). You can use {else} tag inside pvl_checkif to avoid safecracker parsing. For {logged_in_member_id}, devot-ee.com/add-ons/mo-variables. That makes a lot of addons, but it should work.
    – pvledoux
    Dec 6 '13 at 13:11

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