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User Management

Shado CMS Content Management System has a powerful role-based permissions architecture that allows administrators to set which users have rights to edit and publish content on your web site. Permissions are  granular and have inheritence which means you can apply permissions to any object(section , web page, content item) in the system and that they will cascade down from the object. For exampe if you apply permissions to one section of the site all the pages, sub sections and content items in that section will inherit the permissions.

User Group Roles and Permissions

ShadoCMS works on three general user types for managing site content – administrators, editors and publishers. Each user group has one of these roles assigned for each section or page in the Site Tree. This means for any one user group you can specify which role they have for each area of the site, right down to the individual container level.

Users are members of groups, and take on the combined permissions of all groups they are members of.


 

Here is an overview of the rights associated with each user group role:

Administrators (ShadoCMS Masters)
Section administrators have the ability to:

  • Create the site structure – sections, subsections and pages
  • Add/Modify and delete sections/pages and containers
  • Assign page owners and templates
  • Assign section and page variables
  • Re-order pages within a section
  • Translate a section (multi-language)
  • Manage permissions against a section
  • Manage the workflow notification against a section or page
  • Add/modify/delete meta data
  • Directly modify and publish content
  • Publish or decline content in the publishing workflow


Editors
Section editors have the ability to:

  • Manage meta data against a page or section
  • Commit content to the publishing workflow, but they require a publisher to approve new content before it goes live. The check-in/check-out functionality of ShadoCMS ensures they can work and save content changes as many times as they require before submitting it to the publishing queue
  • Recall content committed to the workflow queue before it is approved


Section Editors cannot:

  • Add new pages or containers
  • Modify existing section or page details


Advanced Editors
Advanced editors have the same publishing workflow permissions as editors, however they can also:

  • Add new sections, pages, and containers to the sections they have rights to
  • Modify section and page information
  • Manage section and page variables
  • Re-order pages within a section


Publishers
Publishers have the similar permissions as advanced editors, except they can also:

  • Publish or decline content submitted to the publishing workflow queue
  • Directly modify and publish content


Publishers do not have rights by default to manage section and page variables or translate sections.