Workflow, Permissions and Locking
The maintenance of a large, dynamic website is a collective endeavor involving many people with different skills and responsibilities. Therefore most web site publishers have internal routines and procedures that formalize this division of labor. The Escenic Content Engine can be configured to reflect the varying internal procedures used by different website publishers.
In order to use Content Studio to work on a publication, you must have been registered as a user by the publication's administrator and given a login user name and password. When the administrator registers you as a user, he will assign you to group which has an associated set of rights. You might, for example, be assigned to the group "Sports Journalist", which gives you the right to do lots of things in the sports section of the publication, but rather more limited access elsewhere.
Permissions
The Content Engine's permissions system is very flexible, and is configured in very different ways by different publishers, with completely different roles and permissions that reflect their internal organization and corporate culture. However, as a Content Studio user you will most probably have been assigned to a group that is not allowed to do everything. That means that some of the contents of this manual may not apply to you.
It is probably a good idea to find out what permissions you have before you read any further or start using Content Studio, so that you don't waste time learning about things that are not relevant for you, or wondering why a particular function always seems to be disabled.
Locking
When many people work together on a publication, conflicts where two or more people need to work on the same content at the same time will inevitably arise. The Content Engine resolves such conflicts by means of a locking system, whereby the first person to start modifying some content "locks" it so that other people cannot modify it until they have finished. These locks are not applied to whole content items, but to the individual fields of which a content item is composed. This means, for example, that it is possible for an editor to add images to a news article while a journalist is still working on the article's body text. Section pages are also locked in the same way. In this case, a change to any part of a section page locks the whole page.