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Chapter 5
Now, in the Magento backend, if we navigate to System | Permissions | Roles, select
the Administrators role, and try to set Roles Resources at the bottom of the list; we can
see the new ACL resources we created, as shown in the following screenshot:
By doing this, we gain granular control over which operations each user has
access to.
If we click on the Manage Registries menu, we should get a blank page; since we
haven't created the corresponding grid block, layouts, and templates, we should see
a completely blank page.
So let's start by creating the blocks that we will need for our new grid; the way we
will create our gift registry grid will be slightly different from what we did for our
Customers tab.
We need to create a grid container block and a grid block. The grid container is used
to hold the grid header, the buttons, and the grid content, while the grid block is only
in charge of rendering the grid with pagination, filtering, and mass actions. Perform
the following steps:
1. Navigate to your block Adminhtml folder.
2. Create a new block called Registries.php at the location app/code/local/
Mdg/Giftregistry/Block/Adminhtml/:
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