Review App feature spotlight: Section level permissions
May 20th, 2008As we’ve expanded some of our websites over the years we’ve found that we want each new section to work a little differently than the others. For example, on singletracks.com we added mountain bike gear reviews but we wanted to moderate new item submissions before they were visible on the site. Then we also added a trail map section, and in this case, we wanted to limit access to the maps to subscribers only. These two sections were in addition to our trail section where we wanted to limit new trail, review, and photo submissions to registered members only. Since the permission rules on singletracks varied section by section, we decided to make Review App to be as flexible as possible when it comes to adding new site features and setting permissions.
That’s why we built section-level permissions into Review App. Each listing section has its own set of permissions and you can even adjust the permissions on reviews and photos within the section (see screen shot below). You can even choose to moderate new posts individually and have an email notification sent to one of your admin users for processing. Review App also gives your members (if you so choose) the power to edit their posts once they have been submitted - a feature we added to our own sites after our members demanded it.
Section level permissions can be changed at any time once your site is live so you can make adjustments on the fly (in case, for example, your site is suddenly bombarded with spam bot posts). Want use Review App as a content management system (CMS) for just one of your sections? No problem - just set the “Who can add listings” permissions to “Admin users only.” The way you configure your sections is up to you and there’s no pressure - you can always change permissions later.
