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mwiegboldt
mwiegboldt

Reputation: 2760

Silverstripe forbid editing of page but allow to create subpages

I have a NewsholderPage and NewsPage. NewsPages are subpages of NewsholderPage. I need users of a certain group to be able to create NewsPages, but not to be able to edit the NewsholderPage. If I put the following code into the NewsholderPage...

public function canEdit($member = null){
    if(permission::check('SUPERUSER')){
        return true;
    }
    return false;
}

... then a not-admin cannot edit the NewsholderPage but also gets a "forbidden" message, when he is trying to create a NewsPage as child of the NewsholderPage. What is the best way to allow the creation of subpages, while not allowing to edit the parent page?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 179

Answers (1)

user3477804
user3477804

Reputation:

You'll want to override the canAddChildren method on NewsholderPage to return something other than the default (which is simply $this->canEdit()). To get the default behaviour back, you can use something like: 

public function canAddChildren($member = null) {
  // Call SiteTree::canEdit rather than NewsholderPage::canEdit
  return parent::canEdit($member);
}

Upvotes: 3

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