The CMS gives you the freedom to create further roles which have a unique set of permissions. This is fantastic for enabling Teachers to have access and manage their own class pages. You might even want to create a role for Governors to have access to secure area content.
- Select User Manager from the Home tab.
- Select Create New Role from the Common Tasks column.
- Enter details for this role.
Note: Required fields are marked with an asterisk. When creating a role, it must have a Role Name and Role Description.
- Select Choose Permissions to configure the permissions for your new role.
On the next screen, you will be asked to set the permissions on a selection of features. New roles, by default, will have View Only access. This will mean that users associated with that role, will not have the capability to update content on your website.
- To change permission sets:
- Locate the required feature in the left column. For example, select Page.
- Set each permission to Allow or Deny, depending on what access you wish this role to have.
Note: The Not Set option is the same as Deny and is selected by default. - Select Add Role to save your new role to the User Manager.
Please note: If you are setting the permissions for 'File Manager', there is a permission titled 'Constrain to user folder', if this is set to 'ALLOW' it means that users within this role will not be able to access all of the website folders such as the folder that is used to update slideshow images, as they will be constrained to only using their own personal folders. If you want users within this role to access all folders then this must be set to 'DENY' or 'NOT SET' like so:
- Once you have created a custom role, you can allocate it to a page, or set the page to require login to create a secure page.