Setting Access Rights in the Tree Structure

When you have created the group, it is time to enter where in the tree structure the group should have authorization. You then also determine what access rights a specific group is to have in that part of the structure.

EPiServer CMS offers six different levels for what a group or user can do on a specific page. Each group or user can have different access rights to each page. There is no hierarchy within these different levels. This means that a group may have the right to read and publish pages but not to create, edit and delete them.

Read means the group/user has the access rights to read the current page.

Create means the group/user has the access rights to create pages under the current page.

Change means the group/user has the access rights to edit the current page.

Delete means the group/user has the access rights to delete the current page.

Publish means the group/user has the access rights to publish the current page.

Administer means the group/user has the access rights to edit dynamic properties and set access rights and language properties for the current page. This level has nothing to do with Admin mode, except to administer one or several pages in Edit mode.

Specify access rights for one or more pages as follows:

1. Select Set Access Rights on the Admin tab. The tree structure is displayed in the lower section of the window.
2. Select the page in the tree structure for which you want to set access rights. When the page is highlighted, the name of the page is formatted with a dark gray background.
3. Those groups and individuals that have access rights to the highlighted page are shown with the most recently saved access rights above the structure. If you also want other groups or individuals to have these access rights, click Add Users/Groups and then select the ones you want. When you add a group or user, no settings will be saved; you are only seeing the information in the window.
4. Specify the level of access rights each group or individual is to have.
5. Save the new access rights by clicking Save above the groups. If you want the access rights to apply to the current page and its sub pages, select the Apply settings for sub pages check box before you save. If you do not select this, you will only save the access rights on the highlighted page.

The rights that you have stored apply to the existing pages in the structure that you have saved. New pages always inherit the same access rights as the main page.

Remember that you only affect the groups that are highlighted. The groups that are not highlighted when you click Save will remain unchanged, irrespective of previous settings. It is therefore important that you do not highlight a group by mistake that you do not want to affect.