Access Control.pdf

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Access Control

& Mailing Lists

Access control lets you apply security to your website, either

to restrict access to specific pages or to control user access to

forums, blogs, and other Serif Web Resource features. In

WebPlus, this is managed with a User List Smart object.

Another useful function of the User List Smart object is the

ability to quickly create mailing lists.

In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to:

Set up access control.

Configure, manage, and edit user groups.

Suspend and block IP addresses and users.

Create a mailing list.

This tutorial assumes that you have already

registered for a Serif Web Resources

account. If you are unsure how to do this, see

the tutorial Counters & Polls or see online Help.

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The User List Smart object has two modes— access control and mailing list .

The access control mode allows you to

easily control who can access the pages

of your site, forums, blogs and other

objects.

In mailing list mode, the User List object

allows website visitors to sign up to

newsletters, party confirmations,

information requests, and many more.

Lists can be controlled manually or by

self-subscription.

In this tutorial, we’ll look at both modes, starting with access control.

To access the Smart

objects ,you need to log in to

Serif Web Resources . If you

don’t have a valid username and

password you must first create a

Serif Web Resources account -

see online Help or the Counters &

Polls tutorial if you are unsure

how to do this.

Setting up access control

There are often times when you want to restrict access to certain pages

within your site. Perhaps you have personal photo galleries that you only

want friends and family to see, or you want to be able to monitor and

control who uses your web forum. This is where the User List Smart

object can help.

The User List - Access Control mode lets you apply security across

your site (typically to specific pages of your site). In this exercise, we’ll set

up an Access Control Smart object to set security on our gallery page.

Once we’ve done that, we can reuse the access control for our Forum in

the next tutorial.

To set up access control

1 Start a new site, or alternatively, open the scuba.wpp file from the

Workspace folder.

2 On the Web Objects toolbar, click the

Smart Object Tool and

3 In the Smart Objects dialog, click New .

Workspace folder

In a standard installation, you’ll find this folder in the following

location:

C:\Program Files\Serif\WebPlus\X4\Tutorials\Workspace

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4 In the Create Smart Object dialog,

select the User List option and click

OK .

5 In the Create Smart Object dialog,

name your access control object.

If you want to create an on-the-page

user login, set the properties of the

text, buttons, background, and

border.

6 Click Create . Your new Smart object is

listed in the Smart objects Library.

Adding users to the User List

Access control is based around a user list (i.e. a complete list of users who

are registered on your site) and one or more user groups. Users can be

added to the user list in two ways:

Automatically - when a visitor registers or signs up on your site or

forum.

Manually - by adding a user in the Manage dialog. This is most useful

when you want to restrict access to certain pages on your site and you

have a dedicated list of people to add immediately.

As we are going to password protect our Gallery page, we’ll start by

manually adding some users to the list. Let’s do this now.

To manually add a user to the User List

1 In the Smart

object library,

select your User

List - Access

Control Mode

object and click

Manage .

The Users

section already

contains one

user—this is

your Serif Web

Resources login

email address.

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2 In the Add New User pane, type

the user email address into the Email

field.

3 Leave the default settings

(recommended) and click Add User .

The user is

added to the

list and will

receive a

confirmation

email with their

4 Add any other users.

If you clear the Require Activation check

box, the user will is automatically activated.

They will be able to log in to the page with

access control immediately.

Configuring access control

Now that we’ve created a new User List Access Control object, the next

step is to configure our users and groups.

To create user groups

1 Click the Smart Object Tool .

2 In the Smart Objects Library, select your User List - Access

Control Mode object and click Manage .

3 In the Manage dialog, click the Groups tab.

Currently, the list of groups is empty. As we are going to set security

on our gallery page, let’s create a ‘Gallery access’ group.

4 Under Create New Group :

Type ‘ Gallery access ’ in

the Group Name box.

Ensure that the Add new

users on signup option

is cleared.

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Click Create Group .

5 The Group

Management panel

displays the settings that

you’ve just created. For

now, click Done .

6 In the User Group

Management pane, the

Group drop-down list

displays the name of your

new group.

Notice that the group list

is empty. Let’s now add some users.

To manually add users to a group

1 On the Groups tab, ensure that your new group is selected.

2 To add users one at time:

In the Users section, click to select a user name from the list.

Click Add .

- or -

To add all users in the list, click Add All .

3 Once added to the group, the users appear in the group list.

4 Click Exit .

Now that your ‘Gallery access’ control group is created, we can set up the

page security on our photo gallery page. Let’s do this now.

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