This section describes some of the basic site administration tasks that are available to Content Manager users. There are a number of other functions that are available only to system administrators which are not documented here.

Initializing the Site

Sometimes a website's menu system doesn't reflect the backend hierarchy of pages as given under the Explore tab.  Reinitialize the site if this is the case.  Get the site's home page into the Properties tab, and press "Initialize" at bottom of form.

User Account Management

Creating a New User Account: All user accounts are created under the "User Accounts" page.  Click on this page in the Explore tab, then "Create", and select "user".  In the Content tab, fill in user's name, password, and email address (at least).  Then press "submit", and a new user account will be added.

Disabling a User Account: A simple way to disable an account is to put it on Hold.  Find the account in the Explore Tab, then click on the "hold" checkbox, then Save.

Removing a User Account: Drag and drop it to the "Delete" bucket icon. 

Permissions Management

See The Access Tab

User Account Types

User types can be customized, of course, but here is our standard instal set of user types:

system administrator

• full back-end access to all system functions

content manager

• limited back-end access, can only see site hierarchy and reports, access to all tabs in Work Panel
  
• can set permissions of author users

content author

• can submit new content as a draft
  
• cannot edit live content
  
• very limited back-end access, can only see site hierarchy, no access to Properties, Context, and Access tabs in Work Panel

member

• custom user type, exact permissions depend on the project requirements, usually some combination of visitor and author permissions
  
• no back-end access

visitor / anonymous

• basically this is any anonymous user on the web accessing the site
  
• has read access only to pages marked as public 
  
• no back-end access
  

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