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Roles and Privileges

A role is a set of privedges that differentiate what one user can do from what another user can do. The most common user roles for Contensive are as follows:

• Guest: a visitor to the site that has not identified themselves.
• Recognized User: a visitor who the site recognizes from a previous visit, but has not logged in.
• Authenticated User: a visitor who has logged in, and is granted the priveleges from their account.
• Content Manager: an authenticated visitor who can edit content on the site. This may be only a single web page, or it could be any data associtated with the site.
• Administrator: an authenticated visitor who has rights to edit and modify any data associated to the site. 
• Developer: an authenticated visitor who can edit any data, and has access to most sensative system tools and data.

These roles are configured in two ways.

1. Username, password, administrator and developer rights are granted through the user's Member record, where all account information is stored.
2. Other access is granted through buiness rules associated to the user's membership in user defined groups. Group membership determines the Content Management rights (what non-administrators your can edit), as well as access to protected areas on the site.
   

The administrator manages user roles and privileges.

This page was last reviewed Friday, April 10, 2009