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Create blogs for members in a group

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Ole Riege
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on Thu, Nov 19 2009 2:32 AM

As I create my groups in telligent 5.0 I'm trying to establish a menu for for creating and edit blogs. As an admin I get the "create blog" button in my blog page but as an regular member I don't get the button in the menu. I've checked the member roles and it has permissions like group-create new blogs. And if I test the url for the form to create blog the member can access it and create a blog. What am I missing? This is the permissions my group members has:

Blog - Create Comments
Blog - Rate Posts
Blog - Read Posts
Forum - Attach Files Locally
Forum - Attach Files Remotely
Forum - Create New Threads
Forum - Post Replies
Forum - Rate Posts
Forum - Read Posts
Group - Create New Blogs
Group - View Group Names in Lists
Group - Join Groups</option>
Group - Access Group Homepage
Group - View Group Members
Media Gallery - Attach Files Locally
Media Gallery - Attach Files Remotely
Media Gallery - Create Comments
Media Gallery - Create Posts
Media Gallery - Download Files
Media Gallery - Rate Posts
Media Gallery - Read Posts
Wiki - Create Comments
Wiki - Create New Pages
Wiki - Edit Pages
Wiki - Move Pages
Wiki - Rate Comments
Wiki - Rate Pages
Wiki - Read Wikis

These are the permissions for my group:)


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  • Ken Robertson
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    on Fri, Nov 20 2009 3:03 PM
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    This was a but in SP1 that was addressed post-SP1, where the control that handles showing the link was checking for Group - Edit Blog permission rather than Group - Create Blog.

    There is nothing wrong with your permissions, it was a bug in the system.
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  • Wyatt Lyon Preul
    Posted by
    on Thu, Nov 19 2009 3:36 PM

    1. Edit the group permissions at /ControlPanel/GroupAdmin/EditGroup.aspx?GroupID=[ID OF YOUR GROUP]

    2. Select the registered users role from the dropdown

    3. Add 'Group - Create New Blogs' permission to the registered users role and click the save button

    Navigate to your groups home page and add the blog links widget to the page with the create blog link enabled.  Registered users will now see a link to create a new blog from the groups homepage.

    Please let me know if this is still not working.
  • Ole Riege
    Posted by
    on Fri, Nov 20 2009 1:53 AM

    Thank you for the reply. I tried to set the permission Group - Create New Blogs to the registered user role to mye test group. But the only way to get the button to "create new blog" is to give the same role the ' group - edit group settings' in addition to the create new blogs permission. Can you confirm that or is there something wrong with my setup in permissions?

    thanks for all replies
  • Ken Robertson
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    on Fri, Nov 20 2009 3:03 PM
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    This was a but in SP1 that was addressed post-SP1, where the control that handles showing the link was checking for Group - Edit Blog permission rather than Group - Create Blog.

    There is nothing wrong with your permissions, it was a bug in the system.
  • Ole Riege
    Posted by
    on Tue, Nov 24 2009 2:25 AM

    I have installed sp1 so the bug is due to be fixed in sp2?
  • Alex Crome
    Posted by
    on Tue, Nov 24 2009 2:38 AM

    If the bug is in showing the link, you should be able to work around this by manuallly providing a link to the create blog page and / or putting the Create Blog widget on the group's homepage - the widget and page should only be displayed if the accessing user has permission to create blogs in the current group.

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  • Ole Riege
    Posted by
    on Thu, Nov 26 2009 9:17 AM

    It seems like the accessing user who has the access to create a blog don't get the link in the group links widget. The form from the create blog widget works fine. So why is the link in the menu not showing the proper links that should be available.

    I'm also trying to set up the right permissions for my community. What is the best practice for permissions when I try to put a group inside another group. Do the subgroup inherit the permissions? Is that possible to turn off so the permissions only inherits from root?