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concrete5 Beginner's Guide

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concrete5 Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
concrete5
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – granting file manager permissions


  1. Open the Dashboard and select File Manager.

  2. Navigate to Access.

  3. Click on Add Group or User and select Editors and the following screen pops up:

  4. Hit Save to confirm the changes.

What just happened?

You granted all members of Editors access to the file manager. This allows them to upload, delete, and use the files within the pages.

By default, they are only going to see their own files. This can be handy if you, the admin, want to upload system files that a normal user isn't supposed to see. However, if you want to manage the page content using the admin account as well, you might have to allow any user to see all files. In this case, you simply set Search Files to All.

Granting edit access

We've got two new users, each of them a member of a group. This is the basic structure we're going to use for all our permissions. However, they don't have more rights than a user without any assigned group.

The basic permission mode has a simple screen where...