Group Administration Overview

Web Central uses groups to assign rights. You cannot set rights at the user level, even if there is just one person with the assigned rights they must have a group. When you set up your group, you need to decide on the following items:   

• What level of rights should this group have on pages and modules? 
• Which pages should this group have rights to?
• Which module categories do they need rights to?
• Who belongs to this group? 

Administrator Guide to Rights and Group Administration

Web Central uses several layers of rights and all rights are assigned at the group level. You cannot assign rights to individual users. In order for an individual user to have rights to any area of the website, they must belong to a group.

You can create the group first and add the users to the group as you create them, or vice versa. Web Central allows you to vary the level of rights between pages and modules for your groups so you can tailor your permissions to your needs.

Web Central Permissions

Your Web Central content management system has four levels of permissions:

System Administrator

• Pages: Admins have rights to all pages.
• Modules: Admins have rights to all modules. They also have the ability to create new users and groups. Additionally, they have rights to the admin functions available on the website.

Owner

• Pages: Owners are considered a mini-system admin over just a part of the website. They have the right to create new pages, move existing pages, set the feature column on pages, create new pages, and modify existing pages. They can approve the authors' work within their assigned area.
• Modules: Owners can be assigned rights to a module or to a specific category. Owners with rights to a module can create new module categories, new module items, and modify existing items. They can approve the authors' work within their assigned area. Owners with rights to a category can change properties, as well as edit and approve authors' work within their assigned area. 

Publisher

• Pages: A publisher has the right to edit pages and create new pages. Publishers are restricted to areas of the website that the System Administrator chooses. Once activated, this rights level has the ability to publish to the live website. The publisher can unpublish pages but cannot delete them. Publishers can approve authors' work within their assigned area.
• Modules: The publisher has the right to create and modify items within the modules and then publish them to the live site. Publishers are restricted to the categories the admin chooses. The publisher can unpublish module items but cannot delete them. Publishers can approve authors' work within their assigned area. 

Author

• Pages: The author has the right to edit pages and create new pages. Authors are restricted to areas of the website that the System Administrator chooses. When they edit or create a new page they must submit it for approval before the changes are made to the live website.
• Modules: The author has the right to create new items in the modules. They must submit new items for approval before they become publicly viewable. Authors cannot make changes to published module items. Authors can only edit and change unpublished items.