Global Roles

This menu item displays the Global Roles form. It is only present when editing users, not when editing persons.

Content Engine access rights are role-based: that is, a user's access rights are determined by the roles he or she is assigned. Roles are divided into two classes: global roles, which apply to a whole publication, and section roles, which apply only to specific sections. Using this form you can assign the following global roles to a user:

Publication admin

A publication administrator has the right to:

  • Create, delete and modify users and user groups

  • Export and import users

  • Import content

  • Refresh the publication

  • Clear the section cache

Section admin

A section administrator has the right to:

  • Create, delete and modify sections

User admin

A user administrator has the right to:

  • Assign global and section roles to users and user groups

In order to be able to make use of this role, a user must also have the Publication admin role.

Section editor

A section editor has the right to:

  • Modify the content of sections, section pages, lists and inboxes

  • Freely modify the state of the content items in sections

  • Do anything a Journalist can do

Journalist

A journalist has the right to:

  • Create new content items and add them to sections

  • Apply the states Draft and Submitted to content items

  • Do anything a Reader can do

Reader

A reader has the right to:

  • Search for and read sections and content items

Read all content types

A user with this role has at least read access to all content types, irrespective of what content type rights he/she has been individually assigned (see Content Types).

Write all content types

A user with this role has full read/write access to all content types, irrespective of what content type rights he/she has been individually assigned (see Content Types).

Some plug-ins add further roles to this list.

Select the roles you want to assign to the user and click on Save.