Setting publishing rights and permissions
To publish items, a User or User Group needs permissions to publish to one or more Target Types (configured in a Business Process Type) and have Publish to Content Distributor rights for the Publication. 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).
Before you begin
Procedure
- Open Content Manager Explorer.
- In the tree on the left, select a Publication for which you want to configure publishing rights.
- Right-click the Publication and select Properties from the context menu that opens.
- In the Publication window that opens, select the Security tab and set Publish to Content Distributor rights for users and user groups that need to publish content.
- Select the Publishing tab and check which item is listed under Business Process Type.
- Click Save and Close.
- Back in the main window, expand the Publication and select the Business Process Types node.
- In the content area, right-click the Business Process Type you saw listed and select Properties from the context menu that opens.
- In the Business Process Type window that opens, select the Target Types tab.
- Select a Purpose from the table on the left for which you would want to configure publishing rights.
- Seelct the Security subtab on the right.
- Select Show All.
- In turn, select each user or group to whom you want to grant permission to publish to this Purpose and for each one, select Use Target Type on the right.
- Click Save and Close.