"Section Editor" list in the "User Accounts" area

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Last Post: January 4, 2010   (RSS)

By gkornbluth - August 11, 2008 - edited: December 31, 2009

Here’s one that’s come up a few times in conversations with my client.

Is there any way to alternately display a list of existing section editors in the “User Accounts” area instead of the names of users.

My client has close to 50 pages assigned to various authorized users.

That way, when they click on a section editor in the list, they would see a list of the authorized users for that section.

This would make it much easier for them to re-assign section editors and to contact users responsible for a particular page.

Right now they have to keep a separate, manually created list of the section editors and which users are assigned to each section.
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Re: [Dave] "Section Editor" list in the "User Accounts" area

By gkornbluth - August 12, 2008 - edited: August 12, 2008

Thanks Dave,

WOW!!!

This is perfect. And it makes it soooooo much easier to maintain user records for a site.

A few minor questions...

It seems that if you are already logged on as administrator before you run this viewer, then you are taken directly to the user modification screen for the person that you wanted to edit, which is absolutely awesome.

However, if you are not logged on as administrator before using this viewer, then you are taken to a login screen and then to the main admin page.

Any tweeks that would take you to the user modification screen instead after login?

From a security perspective, it might be good if the user list was not displayed at all before an administrative login was completed.

As always, you're the best.

Jerry
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Re: [gkornbluth] "Section Editor" list in the "User Accounts" area

By Dave - August 13, 2008

I replied via PM but for any one else following here's my response:

Try adding this code to require the user to login before they can see the page. If you put the script in the same folder as admin.php all the css and html should display correctly.

Add the code in red:

require_once "lib/viewer_functions.php";

### Require Login
require_once "lib/init.php";
require_once "lib/admin_functions.php";
$CURRENT_USER = getCurrentUserAndLogin();


Hope that helps!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

Re: [Dave] "Section Editor" list in the "User Accounts" area

By gkornbluth - December 31, 2009

Hi Dave,

I haven't used this script for a while and tried to re-implement it in the only 2 versions I have to test it on: 1.36 and 2.01.

When I try to log ito the page as Admin I keep being brought back to a blank log-in dialog.

When I remove the lines above and log in as Admin separately the same happens.

Thanks for your help,

Jerry
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Re: [gkornbluth] "Section Editor" list in the "User Accounts" area

By Dave - January 4, 2010

Hi Jerry,

There's been some changes to the internal code.
Try putting this at the top:

### Require Login
define('START_SESSION', true);
require_once "lib/viewer_functions.php";
require_once "lib/admin_functions.php";
$CURRENT_USER = getCurrentUserAndLogin();


Let me know if that fixes it or if there are still issues.

Thanks!
Dave Edis - Senior Developer
interactivetools.com

Re: [Dave] "Section Editor" list in the "User Accounts" area

By gkornbluth - January 4, 2010

Perfect

Thank you

Jerry
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