Re: [collective-cmfmember] Simple question...

[Rob M. <ra...@bu...>]

On May 21, 2004, at 7:56 AM, Dmitry S. Makovey wrote:

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> Hi gyus,
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> First of all I'm not subscribed here so please CC me in your reply.
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> Second: CMFMember looks very (and I mean it) very promising especially 
> for our
> needs - one thing which bothers me: I can't add members outside of 
> "plone
> setup".
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> Ok, my usecase is as follows: we have one big Plone site and dozens of
> departments contributing to it. Now to take load off central site 
> managers
> we'd like to allow department managers to add (submit) new users. The 
> easiest
> way would be to give them "Manager" or similar role in respective 
> folder and
> allow them to add "Member" objects there and then submit 'em for 
> approval. Am
> I looking the wrong way and this already can be done somehow or it's 
> rather a
> feture request?

currently, there's no support for Member objects living anywhere other 
than in the MemberDataContainer.  you're not the first person to have 
requested this, so it seems likely that we may remove this restriction 
down the road.

you should be able to achieve what you want w/o this, though.  any user 
can create a new member by simply browsing to 
http://your.plone.site/createMember.  the UI will be a bit awkward, 
since it's aimed at users who are registering themselves, but it should 
work.  if you use the 'member_approval_workflow', the managers will see 
submitted members in the review list and must approve them before they 
actually become active.

-r