Setting permissions

Before you begin

To edit permissions you must have Permissions Management rights.

About this task

Permissions determine what actions users and groups can perform on the contents of a Folder, Structure Group or Category for those Content Manager items for which they have the necessary rights.

For example, granting Write access to a Folder called Images enables users with Component Management rights to create or edit items within Images, but it does not enable the user to change the name of the Folder. To change the name of the Images Folder, the user needs Write permissions for the Images Parent Folder and Folder Management Rights within the Publication.

Procedure

  1. In the Content Manager Explorer, select one of the following organizational items and choose Properties in the context menu:
    • Folder
    • Structure Group
    • Category
  2. In the Security tab, set Permissions for Users and Groups:

    When you set the permissions for a Folder or Structure Group, by default, any nested Folders or Structure Groups inherit the settings of the Parent item. You can disable this setting to create custom permission settings for the Folder or Structure Groups.

    If the Publication is a Child Publication in a BluePrint, then Folder, Structure Group, and Category permissions are also shared from the Parent Publication (see Editing group permissions).

  3. Click Save and Close.