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Setting publishing rights and permissions

To publish items, a User or User Group needs permissions to publish to one or more Target Types and have Publish to Content Distributor rights for the Publication.

Before you begin

To add or edit Target Types, you must have system administration privileges.

About this task

For example, the User Group Author may have permission to publish to the Target Type Staging (the staging server) while the User Group Editor has permission to publish to Staging and Live (production server).

Procedure

  1. Open Content Manager Explorer.
  2. Select System Administration in the navigation pane.
  3. Expand the Publishing Management > Target Types node.
  4. In the list view, select the Target Type you want to edit.
  5. Open the Ribbon toolbar Home tab and click Open.
  6. To grant or remove permission to publish to the Target:
    1. Click the Security tab.
    2. On the Security tab, select the Show All check-box.
    3. Select the users or groups that should have permission to publish to this Target Type. In the Permissions field, select the Use Target Type check-box.
  7. Click Save and Close.
  8. Open a Publication Properties and in the Security tab set Publish to Content Distributor rights for Users and User Groups that need to publish content.