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Restrict visibility of OpenCms templates to certain folders

Since I’m currently working on an OpenCms mutli site solution I was looking for a possibility to restrict the available templates of a site. I know this can be done via permissions but the manual implementation of this is rather painful. I’m currently in the process of extending the OpenCms security manager to take care of this but while doing this I found an (to me) unknown feature.

By usage of the property folders.available (you might have to define it first) on a template you can specify a list of comma seperated folders in which the template is available (in the dropdown).

Unfortunately this property works only on file level and can not be inherited via the folder hierarchy. Also it does not provide a secure solution since the template can always be set via the advanced property dialog.

But you never know when a feature could come in handy.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 at 4:51 pm and is filed under Technology. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

One Response to “Restrict visibility of OpenCms templates to certain folders”

  1. S. Prousteau Says:
    December 8th, 2009 at 5:48 pm

    Hi,
    I can see on http://www.opencms.org/en/news/091001_v751_releasenotes.html that a new feature is “Added option to hide “Advanced” button of property dialog depending on the current users groups”. Do you how it works?

    PS: Great blog! But no search form, nor mail’alert function…

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