Re: [Krang-devel] Elements for only certain sites?

[Christopher H. <ch...@ch...>]

On Wed, 11 May 2005, Sam Tregar wrote:
> On Wed, 11 May 2005, Christopher Hicks wrote:
>> Has anyone found a way to restrict elements to a single site or does
>> doing so require seperate krang instances?  For end users having
>> seperate krang instances wouldn't cause any pain and it would be
>> slightly less confusing when dealing with the element list.  But for
>> our designers and support folks it would be a pain to need to switch
>> instances with every phone call.
>
> Yes, you'd need separate instances at present.  At one point we talked
> about supporting permissions to limit access to elements.  I think
> that could be used to do what you're asking for.  Another alternative
> would be to allow Krang::ElementClass::children() to be dynamic.  (Or
> maybe it already can be?  I keep going back and forth on whether I
> think it will just work or not.  Suffice it to say that it's never
> been done.)

Thanks for your thoughts on this.  This is way down on our krang tweak 
priority list, but if I come up with a solution I'll definitely share it.

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</chris>

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