Overview
Setting up user accounts and groups can be done from the Settings app and the Users/Groups section.
Users & Groups Settings
Groups
The group listing view can be accessed by navigating to Settings > Users / Groups > Groups. The view shows key information on each group defined in the CMS.
Editing Group Settings
Groups List
To see the group details view, double-click on the group name or right-click and select Edit from the context menu.
Edit Group
In the initial details view, you can see the group name and description followed by a number of sections. Each section header can be clicked to reveal a list of capabilities, each with a checkbox that determines whether the group enables the capability of not.
The sections include:
- Preferences controls how the user can modify their own experience.
- Classic Only controls the features that are only available in our original web interface.
- Content Admin and Sys Admin control what Administrators can modify.
- Publishing provides access to important publishing processes like workflow commands
- Editing is typically the most utilized category
Creating a New Group
When creating a new Group, if you are not 100% sure which permissions to enable, best practice is to clone an existing group, and update the permissions based on your group requirements. To clone a Group, right-click on a Group name and select Clone Group.
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Cloning migrates all the users from the original group over to the new group. So, if you don’t want the same users, you can either simply create a new group or update the users in the cloned group.
To start from scratch, click the New Group button on the Groups list page.