I just update Advanced Permissions to version 17.1.0.
Advanced Permissions gives you more granular control over user group permissions. This update adds two new features that give you even greater control!
You can find advanced permissions on the Umbraco marketplace: Advanced Permissions for Umbraco | Umbraco Marketplace
Document Type ‘Insert Options’
By default, if a user has the ‘create’ permission on a node, the user can create instances of all configured document types that are allowed to insert below that node (those are the ‘allowed child node types’). With advanced permissions, you can now filter that list using the same inheritance based system that’s already there:
So now different user groups can have different insert options. Maybe a marketeer is allowed to create news items, but a product manager is not. Beware that this acts as a filter: it will not magically add insert options that are not set on the document type.
It also features the same intuitive access viewer to see where a specific document type can and can’t be inserted. A dashed line indicates that it would be allowed if it was an insert option, but that is currently isn’t.
Priority override
By default, when a user has multiple groups, there is a priority that determines the effective persmission for a permission. The default order is:
- Explicit Deny overrides everything else.
- Explicit Allow overrides any inherited permission.
- Inherited Deny overrides an inherited Allow.
- Inherited Allow.
This works great in most cases, but that also means that an explicit deny can never be undone. For those scenario’s, there is now a priority override. It acts kind of an !important in css. It’s meant to be used sparingly and will override the default order and almost guarantee that the effective permissions will be this permission:
The access viewer will reflect on the fact that’s an override by a gold color:
v18 beta
I also released a first beta for Umbraco 18. Everything seems to work as expected, but I plan to keep it a beta until Umbraco 18 itself is out of beta.