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Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook

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Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Liferay 6.x Portal Enterprise Intranets Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating and configuring roles


Regardless of the type of the role with which we are dealing, the process of creating a new role consists of two steps—creating a new, empty role and defining a set of permissions for the role.

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will show you how to create a new regular site and organization roles and how to define a set of permissions for them.

In order to create a new regular role, perform the following steps:

  1. Go to Admin | Control Panel | Roles.

  2. Click on the Add button.

  3. Choose the Regular Role, Site Role or Organization Role option.

  4. Provide Name (Required), Title, and Description for the role.

  5. Click on the Save button, and you will come back to a list containing all the roles defined.

  6. Click on the Actions button next to the newly created role.

  7. Choose the Edit action.

  8. Click on the Define Permissions tab.

  9. Using the left column navigation menu, choose the categories (such as Site Administration | Pages | Site Pages) for which you want to define permissions.

  10. For each chosen...