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Rights and system privileges for Content Manager items

Users and User Groups require you to assign them rights (Publication-specific) and/or system privileges (system-wide) so that they can work on Content Manager items. The following table describes the rights or system privileges that you can assign to Users or User Groups.

To work with . . .The user or group must have . . .
Approval StatusesApproval Status Management Privilege
BundlesBundle Management rights
CategoriesCategory Management rights
Component TemplatesComponent Template Management rights
ComponentsComponent Management rights
FoldersFolder Management rights to modify folder settings; Permission Management rights to modify folder permission settings.
Group management (except the Group's system privileges), Group membership of Groups and UsersGroup Management Privilege
Multimedia TypesMultimedia Type Management Privilege
Page TemplatesPage Template Management rights
PagesPage Management rights
Publication settings and Blueprint relationshipsPublication Management rights
Administrator-level rights within a Publication (but not the right to create or delete it)Publication Administration rights
Child Publications (creating only)Create Child Publication Privilege
Publishing contentPublish to Content Distributor rights
SchemasSchema Management rights
Security settingsPermission Management rights
Structure GroupsStructure Group Management rights (to create a root Structure Group, the user requires Publication Management rights)
System privilegesPrivilege Management Privilege
Target GroupsCustomer Management rights
Template Building BlocksTemplate Building Block rights
User and Group rights and permissions within the PublicationPermission Management rights
Search FoldersVirtual Folder Management rights
WorkflowWorkflow Management rights
A more detailed explanation of these rights as needed:
Publication Administration right
This right allows the user to read and update the Publication, and to perform any operation on any item within the Publications, including but not limited to:
  • creating, reading, updating or deleting any item in the Publication
  • publishing any item in the Publication
  • checking in any versioned item in the Publication that another user had checked out
  • undoing the check-out by another user of any versioned item in the Publication
  • reading, unlocalizing or deleting non-checked-in items