Dear all,

I find myself needing to allow inline-editing to users without allowing them access to the admin panel and as far as I can see, there are two different ways to do this for my case:

• Restrict access to the entire Admin Panel to Admin level while allowing them to still use inline editing.
or
• Allow inline-editing to Authenticated-User(Special) while still restricting access to the entire Admin Panel.

No Admin will ever require access to the Admin Panel, therefore I have no issue restricting their access entirely.

[KK]

Hi,

As it happens, this inline editing facility is available only for admins so that would rule out the second solution -

Allow inline-editing to Authenticated-User(Special) while still restricting access to the entire Admin Panel.

You'll have to find a way to restrict access for the admins to the admin-panel. Let me know if you need any help with that.

Hi,

As it happens, this inline editing facility is available only for admins so that would rule out the second solution -

Allow inline-editing to Authenticated-User(Special) while still restricting access to the entire Admin Panel.

You'll have to find a way to restrict access for the admins to the admin-panel. Let me know if you need any help with that.

Good day KK,

My initial attempt was to edit the index.php line 9:

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$AUTH->check_access( K_ACCESS_LEVEL_ADMIN );

And add SUPER_ADMIN which does the trick and restricts the Admins from the panel but as you have already figured out it also restricts Admin from the uses of inline editing.

Now I am looking into ways of redirecting an admin away from the admin panel instead of restricting them

Hi,

As it happens, this inline editing facility is available only for admins so that would rule out the second solution -

Allow inline-editing to Authenticated-User(Special) while still restricting access to the entire Admin Panel.

You'll have to find a way to restrict access for the admins to the admin-panel. Let me know if you need any help with that.

For the time being, a working method was editing a system snippet (main.html) and adding

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                <cms:if k_user_access_level lt '10'>
               <cms:redirect url='URL_HERE' />
                </cms:if>

This redirects every time an admin is attempting to access the admin panel but does not interfere with inline editing.

[KK]

This seems to be as good a solution as any.
I'd only add that you should use the 'theme overriding' method (instead of modifying a core snippet directly) as shown at viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10241

This seems to be as good a solution as any.
I'd only add that you should use the 'theme overriding' method (instead of modifying a core snippet directly) as shown at viewtopic.php?f=5&t=10241

That is the intention, but before doing that I was altering the core snippet directly to make sure it will work.
Thank you!