Kotti CMS - how to add new roles

Kotti CMS has an intuitive user and permissions management that scales to fit the requirements of larger organizations.

This blog post is a small recipe: how to add a new role in user management views and sharing views for local roles management.

It is quite easy, it requires few lines of code you can add to your __init__.py module:

from kotti.security import (
    Principal,
    ROLES,
    SHARING_ROLES,
    set_roles,
    set_sharing_roles,
    set_user_management_roles,
    )
from kotti_yourpackage import _


def add_role(role_id, role_title):
    """ Add role in share view and user management views """
    UPDATED_ROLES = ROLES.copy()
    UPDATED_ROLES[role_id] = Principal(role_id,
                                       title=role_title)
    UPDATED_SHARING_ROLES = list(SHARING_ROLES)
    UPDATED_SHARING_ROLES.append(role_id)
    set_roles(UPDATED_ROLES)
    set_sharing_roles(UPDATED_SHARING_ROLES)
    set_user_management_roles(UPDATED_SHARING_ROLES + ['role:admin'])


add_role(u'role:customer', _(u'Customer'))

And now, we have a new Customer role ready to be used:

As you can see there is a new (pretend) "Customer" role

You can assign the Customer role as global or local (just on single nodes) to end users or even better group of users.

After that you can work with ACLs or, better, configure what the customer role can do writing a custom workflow (see http://davidemoro.blogspot.com/2015/02/kotti-cms-workflow-reference.html).

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