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HooKan Permissions Manager

It’s an interesting approach to permissions management in ExpressionEngine by John de Beer and his HooKan Permissions Manager add-on.

HooKan Screenshot Screenshot from the HooKan website

Instead of clicking in and out of different member groups and access areas, you have a grid (member groups are the columns, permissions the rows) where you can click circles to enable certain access.

HooKan is in beta right now but up for sale for $17 (this is noted as an introductory offer until October 15th). The normal price is $34.95.

Posted on Sep 22, 2011 by Ryan Irelan

Filed Under: EE Add-ons, EE Modules

Neil / Nevsie / Modeten11:57 on 09.22.2011

Looks like a nice add-on but for somehting most sites setup and rarely touch again, a paid add-on is unlikely to get me to use it. If I have a site where i am changing permissions a lot - maybe - but even then, i might put up with the extra few minutes it takes…