Procedure: Create CMS Roles

Modified on 2011/07/19 16:33 by Charles — Categorized as: Website Procedures

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Procedure: Create CMS Roles

This page explains how to create a new CMS Role.

Preamble

Roles are used to secure the website. Roles can easily be used to restrict a CMS User to update a single Web Part, Web Page or pages within a folder.

Roles are used to:
Roles that access the site MUST be added to the webparts.config file at the root of the website directory.

Default Roles included in the webparts.config file include: Editor and WebMaster. This means that only users with these Roles are allowed to edit the site.

The corManager.config file is used to control what Roles have edit and/or catalog access to web pages within a folder.

The CMS Role Permissions Web Part is used to control what Roles have edit/catalog access to a web page.

Each Web Part has properties that define what Roles can edit or view the Web Part.

Procedure

  1. Log into CMS
  2. A CMS Role is created using the Create CMS Role Web Part in the CMS Admin Panel - Roles Management.
    • Manage Roles using the Manage CMS Roles Web Part in the CMS Admin Panel - Roles Management.
  3. Review roles assigned to CMS Users using the Review CMS Users Roles Web Part in the CMS Admin Panel - Roles Management.
  4. Assign Roles to CMS Users using the Assign Roles to CMS User Web Part in the CMS Admin Panel - Roles Management.