A brief discussion of logging in and out in Farcry. Farcry handles redirection beautifully (in my opinion). This is important when using a custom login page and/or members only section. If a user clicks on a link that is part of your member’s only section, you display the login form. But, how do you get [...]

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This is post number three for today in a series I like to call “Farcry is AWESOME!” I previously explained how to set up Branch Specific Permissions in the site tree. You can view that post at http://jake.cfwebtools.com/index.cfm/2007/4/20/Site-Tree-Branch-Specific-Permission. Then I discussed setting up a members only section of a site so a user has to [...]

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I’ve had a request recently to create a members only section in a farcry site that I developed. I knew this capability was already in farcry, but I had no idea how to do it. So, for anyone else trying to accomplish this, here’s what I did… First, copy the Anonymous policy group and map [...]

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So, you’ve got a farcry site up and running and are pretty proud of yourself. That’s great. Now, your client comes to you and says they want a more complicated group policy set up. The default in farcry is to have Contributors, Publishers and Site Administrators. Contributors get access to create and edit content and [...]

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