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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 – adding groups


Carry out the following steps to add a group:

  1. Log in to concrete5 and go to the Dashboard.

  2. Select Users and Groups in the navigation on the left.

  3. The screen to create new groups is straightforward, as shown in the following screenshot:

  4. Enter a group named Editors in the Name field. Click on Add to create the group.

  5. Create another group named Members, which we'll use to manage the users with access to our secret website section.

What just happened?

We created two new groups, which we'll use during the process of building a small community website. One is for the users with access to manage the website content and another is for members who only get access to the normal website view without any access to the dashboard or in-site editing toolbar.

Group expiration options

You might have noticed the expiration settings at the bottom (see the preceding screenshot) when you created the groups. We don't need them at this point, but they can be quite handy. Imagine you want...