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I am trying to figure out how to have the "Group" check box in the "Access Rights" area checked by default.

The reason is I gave permission to several people to administer the stories and events and they tend to forget to check the group box and when it is needed to be edited by another person, it can't be edited and became my (root) responsibility to change the access rights. I want it to be checked by default and let them uncheck it only when they really want to keep the access rights for themself.

Sam

It depends on what submissions you are talking about. I'll explain briefly for stories, but you will have to do something similar for links, events, polls, etc.

I'll also cross-link this thread with this one, which shows how to cause the "frontpage" selection in the story editor to default to what you want. It's a similar problem, but slightly different.

So, in admin/story.php, find the

line. After that, you should see



That is the code you want to examine. To make both group boxes checked, change perm_group from 2 (read_access) to 3 (read/write access). The permissions are a little more complicated than that, but that is basically what they mean. Read the security docs if you are interested in a more in-depth explanation.

Hope that helps!

Thanks, Turias! A hint is all I needed?

Sam