HooKan Permissions Manager

With HooKan you can compare and edit permissions across user groups at the same time - your access security can only improve as your anxiety level goes down.

Besides, it's just much easier to manage permissions this way

Why Not Just Stay With the EE Way?

EE Good - provides great fine-grained control over all manner of access permissions at the user-group level. EE Bad - EE does not provide a permission-focused, overall view of all access permissions

So what, and Who Cares?

• The "Member Group 'Authors' Settings" Control Panel (CP) alone provides for 67+C+T+M permissions to deal with, where C = the number of channels, T = the number of Template Groups and M = the number of Modules - and that only covers one user group, so multiply by the number of user groups in your case.
• Worse, if you need to know the state by permission rather than by user group, you get to look at each user group in turn using whatever clever method you have to keep track of the differences and similarities between them.
• So for a three channel site with two template groups, 6 modules and 5 user groups, you have to keep track of 390 individual permissions.
• No sweat if all user groups get the same permissions, but a real pain in the situation (to coin a phrase) where user groups have to be kept securely separate from each other.
• If you want an easy way to manage permissions and you DO care about access security, don't you, then HooKan is your friend.

HooKan is MSM-aware

"HooKan" is short for "Who can" do what.

Cheezy eh?

Prerequisites

• ExpressionEngine V2.2.2 Build 20110801 or later
• PHP 5

Installation

1. Download HooKan and Unzip
2. Upload the system/third_party/hookan folder to system/expressionengine/third_party/
3. Upload the themes/third_party/hookan folder to themes/third_party/
4. Install the HooKan Module in Add-Ons → Modules
5. Launch the HooKan Module and Explore

• Version 1.0.2
  • Fixed a bug that broke styles when logged in via admin.php
• Version 1.0.1
  • Fixed a javascript bug that caused the tooltips in the left hand (fixed) column to disappear when the table is redrawn
  • Cleaned up some minor formatting and display problems
  • Removed a number of redundant directories and files
• Version 1.0
  • Integrated EE Forums
  • Cleaned up some code
• Version 0.9.4 Beta
  • Corrected a bug that caused a table to update the wrong column after an item was updated in a different table
  • Reworked the html in the table headings to make the appearance cleaner and easier to read.
  • Removed the sort controls from all table colums except the leftmost column
  • Added tooltips to facilitate access to native EE permissions management for the leftmost columns of the Template Access Privileges, Status Access Privileges, Categories Editing Privileges and Categories Editing Privileges tables
  • Disabled access privileges for Banned, Guest and Pending groups in the Status Access Privileges and Upload Access Privileges tables. This brings HooKan into compliance with EE native rules for these user groups. Added Explanatory tooltips for these groups in the affected tables.
  • Brought HooKan into compliance with native EE access editing rules for the Categories Editing and Deleting Tables. These tables can not be updated unless corresponding settings in the General Configuration Table are enabled - added tooltips in the Categories Editing and Deleting Tables to make this clear.
  • Added a screen refresh to ensure the correct state for the Categories Editing and Deleting Tables whenever affecting changes are made in the General Configuration Table
• Version 0.9.2 Beta
  • Corrected a number of logic errors to do with detecting the presence of tables
• Version 0.9.1 Beta
  • Fixed a bug causing a language file loading error when MSM is not present
• Initial Release
  • Version 0.9 Beta

1. Investigate ways in which an API for Third Party Add On Permissions can be implemented. Hopefully HooKan users will contribute suggestions
2. Review HooKan design and code. Refactor where efficiency can be improved

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