By vegasphotog on

I am sure this is a basic answer but I do not know where to start. I have a site where as the admin I have the only access to do anything except view the site. Thus, I do not have a login panel visible on my site...I just go in through the back door. I want to have a secure page that basically just lists in a table with hyperlinks to a respective PDF for a printable monthly newsletter. The current workflow is the publisher email's me the pdf, I ftp it to the server and the the publisher sends out an email with a direct link to the pdf.

I understand creating a user role for this.....but, how do Isolate just this one page from the view of others but as they are provided a link to login [ www.domain.com/?user= ], as a subscribed newsletter users they would then see the page in the navigation and could access the pdf's. The subscriber's emails would be manually entered each time to attain that user status.

Maybe I have all the modules I need, but not sure how to secure just the one page.

Thanks in advance.

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vegasphotog commented

Anyone?

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Max_Headroom commented

That's the only two modules you need.

Create a new content type (node type). Call it Newsletter PDF or what ever you like.
Add a CCK file type field. In configuration set the path where you want to save the file.
Now, instead of FTP the PDF in, you go create content and select the Newsletter PDF.
You will have the option of uploading the file.
(By using a node to upload pdf's, you can now also set permissions who can upload News letter PDF's)

Using Views, you can build lists of Newsletter PDF's with links.
You can also give permissions which users (or roles) that can download PDF's.

This is just to point you in the right direction. Hope it helps

Quentin Campbell