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Gitesh - 6/18/2013 7:54:13 PM

User for only staging site

Hi guys,

We are having a website were we are using staging feature.

2 instances of kentico.
1 instance of kentico is called Staging website.
2 instance of kentico is called Live website.

We make all changes on the Staging website and then synchronize it to the live site.

Question 1:
Is there a way to restrict CMS editors from Live site editing. (Restricting editors to login to the live site cmsdesk).

Question 2:
All the bizform data is submitted on live site. We do not want editors to login to the live site only for checking the bizform data. Is there a way to bring the bizform data to staging website automatically?

Thanks
Gitesh Shah

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Swainy - 6/19/2013 3:37:57 AM

RE:User for only staging site

Hi Gitesh,

Question1
You can set the following in the web config to disable CMSDesk.

<add key="CMSDisableAdministrationInterface" value="true"/>

Question 2
From reading around it doesn't look like Kentico supports staging of bizform data back into the staging site unfortunately (support can you confirm this?). You can either use the export/import feature to do this manually or you can create a custom scheduled task to synchronize it manually using our BizForm API.

Thanks,
Matt

Certified Developer v7

Gitesh - 6/19/2013 4:32:48 PM

RE:User for only staging site

HI Swainy,

Thanks for your quick reply.

On the 1st one. If I add this to the web.config file, will the administrators be able to login to the cmsdesk?

Because only want the cmseditors to be restricted and not the administrators.

Because sometimes the sync doesn't work properly and we have to login to the live site.

Thanks
Gitesh Shah

Kentico Support

kentico_jurajo - 6/20/2013 1:09:41 AM

RE:User for only staging site

Hi,

1. the key prevents anybody from accessing the UI. So, what you need to do is e.g. remove the editor users from the target instance or change their permissions and then do not stage their accounts from source.

2. Bizforms data are not staged, regrettably. Hwoever, you can create e.g. a report for displaying the data on a dashboard and allow the editors on the live site to see just the dashboard, nothing else.

Best regards,
Juraj Ondrus

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