Setting User and Group rights

You can assign rights to an individual Users or to User Groups. It is recommended to add Users to User Groups and assign collective rights and permissions for users in these groups.

Before you begin

To set User and Group rights, you must have System Administration privilege or Permission Management rights.

Procedure

  1. Open Content Manager Explorer.
  2. In the Publications navigation pane, select the Content Management node.
  3. In the list view, select the Publication you want to edit and in the Ribbon toolbar and click Properties .
    The Publication window opens.
  4. Click the Security tab:
    1. On the left-hand side, select Users and Groups. Select the Show all check box to view Users as well as Groups.
    2. On the right-hand side, assign Rights to the selected Users and Groups by selecting the check boxes.
  5. To deny a group permissions regardless of permissions assigned elsewhere:
    1. Click Show exceptions.
    2. Select a user or group to view the related deny permissions.
    3. Select the permissions you want to deny with the selected group from the Permissions pane.
  6. Click Save and Close.

Results

The rights for the User or User Group are modified as soon as the timeout for these kinds of changes expires. This timeout is specified in the Content Manager configuration file, Tridion.ContentManager.config, in the tridion.security element. The value defaults to 300 seconds (5 minutes). After the timeout expires, users that are members of the group are subject to the rights specified by the group.