User roles

Overview

Roles are used to assign a predetermined set of permissions to users. Roles are created in three stages:

1. The first stage is to assign access to websites or directories.
2. The second stage is to assign access to language variants of websites and directories, assigned in stage 1
3. The third stage is to assign specific permissions to view, edit, create, delete or publish, specific areas of websites selected in the first two stages.

Roles can be created from scratch, or can be created by cloning and then editing an existing role.

Creating roles

Users > Roles > New role

Create a name (must be unique) and a description for your new role.

In the Site selection box, check the sites or directories that this role will have access to.

Select the languages permitted for the selected sites, in the second box

Select specific permissions from the third box

Click Add selection to add a tree list view of the permissions in the lower part of the page. Repeat the process where different sites will have different permissions within the role.

Highlighting a tree list view enables the Remove selection link. Selecting this will remove the highlighted tree list.

Click Save to save and return to the role list, or back to list to return without saving the new role.

Cloning roles

Users > Roles > your role> Clone

Edit the name (must be unique) and description, of the selected  role.

Selecting any item(s) in the role overview’s tree listing will show the selections in each of the Site, Language and permission lists and allow additional selection or de-selection of items in those lists.

Once editing is complete, click save to save your changes and return to the role list, or back to return without saving.