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By gdev on
im still a bit confused about these access and permission rules of drupal ...
You see, I would like to have this simple situation :
1: authenticated user -> administrator , this user will have all menus and everything visible in the site.
2: anonymouse user -> site visitor, this user will not see the 'navigation menu' but a 'visitors menu'...
Now, I try to get this done, but can't, because the only way to get the navigation menu to go awat completely for the anonymous user is to disable it as a block.... this in turn means that the authenticated user will also not be able to acces the navigation menu.
how do I go about letting the admin have acces to the navigation menu and the site visitor just seeing a custom menu ?? Isn't this supposed to be easy ?
Gdev
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There is a couple ways to go
There is a couple ways to go about this, the easiest is to use firefox and IE. Use firefox to view your site as the admin and IE to view as the anonymous user.
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? what are you saying ?
I just want to hide the navigation for the visitor and have it appear for the admin after he logs in ... why use 2 browsers for this ... there must be a different way ...
Gdev
I thought that you were
I thought that you were saying that it is difficult to see the changes that you are making, using two browsers will allow you to see the changes without having to log in and out continously.
The nvigation menu will only show menu items that the anonymous user has permission to see, for example if you want anonymous users to be able to view pages but not create them apply this in the permissions section and they will not see the create content links when they view the site.
Menu items a automatically hidden from user roles that do not have priveliges to see them.
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