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Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects

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Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects

Overview of this book

open-source CMS (content management system) and development framework with functionality for web publishing, intranets, e-commerce, extranets, and web portals. In this book, Martin Bauer of designit.com.au an eZ publish Silver partner, teaches you how to successfully manage and implement an eZ publish web content management project. He shows you how to produce quality results in a repeatable manner with the minimum of effort, and end up with eZ publish solutions that will delight your clients. The book presents strategies, best practices, and techniques for all steps of your eZ publish project, starting from client requirements, through planning, information architecture and content modeling, design considerations, and right up to deployment, client training, maintenance, support, and upgrades.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Access Control


eZ publish comes with a built-in permissions system that is similar to the users and groups systems that you find in a standard operating system. The flexibility and depth of the access control system means you have a great deal of control over who does what within the system, both on the front end e.g. for members accessing the site, and for providing different levels of administration, e.g. people that can add content to the entire site or just one section.

Like a normal user/group system, permissions are set and associated with a particular group; users are then assigned to a group and inherit those permissions. The control of permissions can be quite fine grained, but boils down to read, create, edit, and delete.

The access control system in eZ publish uses the following elements:

  • Users

  • User groups

  • Policies

  • Roles

A user is a valid user in the system.

A user group consists of users and can contain other user groups.

A policy is a rule that provides access to content or functionality...