Prevent users from deleting a component or template from a Page

Rob76

Hello

Is there any way to lock down a template to

1. Prevent users from deleting components from the template that is applied to a Page?
2. Force a user to use a specific template when creating a Page?
3. Prevent a user from deleting a template from the Page?

There is a global setting that will prevent a TS role from deleteing components in general but our requirement is that users are able to delete components, just not if they have been applied to a Page from a template.

Also a certain group of users should always use a specific template when creating pages and that group of users shouldn't be able to delete the template from the page.

Thanks
Rob

Rick Poulin

I don't think you're going to find a good solution to that -- the SitePub permissions model just isn't that granular.

1. Prevent users from deleting components from the template that is applied to a Page?

Kind of. The only time where you can change the 'disassociate from template' flag (removing a component from a template without removing the whole template itself) is at page creation time. So if your user group only has access to edit pages, then it kinda satisfies this point.

I haven't seen anything that would satisfy #2 and 3. Ultimately, I'd say you should just trust / train the users to use the solution as intended, and then you validate the authoring work by a business process, i.e. having an enforced peer- or manager-review in a publishing workflow.