Adjusting Access Rights

It is assumed that most organizations will wish to apply stricter access controls for mobile access than they do for access from the local network. The Content Engine access control system has therefore been extended with two means of restricting access from Mobile Studio, in the form of two special user groups that you can add to your publications:

mobile

This user group should be defined with a minimal set of access rights and should have no members. A user's access rights in Mobile Studio are the intersection of the user's ordinary access rights (what they have access to in Content Studio) and the access rights assigned to the mobile user group:

In other words, in order to be able to edit a particular content item in a particular section, both the user and the mobile user group must have write access to the section and the content type in question. If either has insufficient access, then the user will not be able to edit the content item.

If you do not create a mobile user group and assign it some rights, then nobody will have any access to the publication from Mobile Studio.

mobile-blacklist

This user should have no access rights, but can have members. Any user that is a member of this group has no access from Mobile Studio. You can use this group to ensure that users with very high levels of access (admin users, for example) have no mobile access at all.

To make changes to user access rights you need to have publication administration rights. The procedure is as follows:

1. Log in to Web Studio.

2. Select Create new user group and create a user group called mobile.

3. Select Global roles and assign the following global roles to the group:

   • Section editor

   • Journalist

   • Reader

4. Select Content types and choose the content types you want users to be able to edit from Mobile Studio by selecting Write. You should the following content types to Write mode:

   • One non-binary content type (for example, your Story content type)

   • One binary content type for images. Upload of binary attachment types other than images is not currently supported by Mobile Studio.

   Set all other content types to Hidden.

5. Select Create new user group again, and create a user group called mobile-blacklist.

6. Select Find users.

7. Check the users you want to add to the mobile-blacklist group.

8. Select Add selected persons to mobile-blacklist (displayed at the bottom of the list).

9. Select Log off.

For general information about using Web Studio, see the Escenic Content Engine Publication Administrator Guide.