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User Groups, Rights and Permissions

SDL Digital Experience Accelerator has predefined User Groups Developer, Editor, and Site Manager for managing security (Rights and permissions). It is recommended to add Users to these Groups.

Rights

The following rights are assigned to the Developer, Editor, and Site Manager User Groups:

User GroupDescriptionRights
AdminContent Manager administratorAll
Developertemplate and or module developerIn 000 Empty Master, 100 Master, and 400 Example Site Publications:
  • Folder Management
  • Component Template Management
  • Page Template Management
  • Template Building Block Management
  • Virtual Folder Management
Editorcontent authorIn 100 Master and 400 Example Site Publications:
  • Folder Management
  • Component Management
  • Page Management
  • Publish to Content Distributor
  • Virtual Folder Management
Site Managermanagement of structure and siteIn 100 Master and 400 Example Site Publications:
  • Folder Management
  • Structure Group Management
  • Component Management
  • Page Management
  • Publish to Content Distributor
  • Workflow Management
  • Category Management
  • Virtual Folder Management
  • Bundle Management

Permissions 000 Empty Master Publication

On the 000 Empty Master Publication, the Default Templates Folder has permissions to the Developer User Group only (read, write, delete and localize).

Permissions 100 Master Publication

On the 100 Master Publication, permissions are set on Folder and Structure Group level. On most Folders, the Group Everyone has read permissions except the following:

  • on the Modules Folder, the Groups Developer, Editor and Site Manager have full permissions (read, write, delete and localize)
  • on the Admin Folders, only the Group Developer has full permissions, and the Group Everyone has read permissions
  • on the Schemas and Templates Folders, the permissions are set according to the role. For example:
    • in the \Modules\Core\Admin\Schemas Folder, only the Group Developer has full permissions and the other Groups have no rights,
    • in the \Modules\Core\Site Manager\Schemas Folder, only the Group Developer and Site Manager have full permissions and the other Groups have no rights