Prevent admin user from creating child pages?

[Patrik]

Hi all,

I'm new to processwire and trying to figure out if it's suitable for an upcoming project.

One thing I'm wondering is if it's possible to prevent an admin user to create child pages for a certain page. Let's say I don't want anyone else but me (superadmin) to be able to create another page as a child to the home page. I want my main nav to have a set numbers of pages.

I was looking into roles and permissions but couldn't find a way to do it from there. Am I missing something?

All help and advice are appreciated.

Thanks.

[renobird]

Hi Patrik,

First, welcome to the forums.

You can setup control like that under the access options for each template.

"Add Children" is something you can choose per role.

Templates > Access

[Patrik]

Never mind, think I found a solution.

For anyone else having the same issue. Go to Setup > Templates. Choose a template, and then under family you can select Yes/no for "may pages using this template have children". There's also another option, "Can this template be used for new pages?".

Brilliant!

@renobird > Just found a way myself, as you can see. But your suggestion is yet another way to do it. Perfect.

Thanks!

[owzim]

If you use the template aproach the user could then reenable the option to create children, so limiting it via roles is the safer route.

[ryan]

If you use the template aproach the user could then reenable the option to create children, so limiting it via roles is the safer route.

Most of the time a non-superuser wouldn't have access to template settings, so they shouldn't be able to re-enable that option.