Membership levels and access privileges
the CMS has three access levels for members; Restricted, Standard and Administrator. The Restricted access level provides a rudimentary 'work-flow' capability, i.e., members can add content but not make that content public. Content in the Pending category can be reviewed and made live by administrator level members. Standard members can add pages and make them public without consent from an administrator, and administrators have access to every feature of the CMS including adding members, editing and deleting all pages.
How to add a new member
Only Administrators can add new members. Add a new member by clicking 'Add new member' on the Administators menu. Fill in the members personal details (only name and email are compulsory) and choose between 'Restricted access', 'Standard' and 'Administrator'.
Restricted access
Members with Restricted Access - can add pages - but only to the 'Pending' category. Administrators must make sure that a Pending category is available (it should be, as it is the only category that the CMS ships with).
Once added to the Pending category - administrators can review the new page and add it to a category that is appropriate and publicly viewable.
Restricted access
Members with Restricted access can do the following:
- Create new pages.
- Edit their own pages, but not others.
- View a list of their all of their own pages on the site.
- Add images
- List images
- Upload files.
- List uploaded files.
- View their membership profile.
- Edit their membership profile.
- Change their password.
- Choose their editing preferences (e.g., WYSWYG or PHP Markdown or none).
- Add news to the home page.
- Edit their own news items.
Standard access
Members with Standard access can do the following:
- Create new pages.
- Publish their pages directly to the site without Administrator approval.
- Edit their own pages, but not others.
- View a list of their all of their own pages on the site.
- Add new categories.
- Edit categories
- Add new navigation bars.
- Edit navigation bars.
- Add images
- List images
- Upload files.
- List uploaded files.
- View their membership profile.
- Edit their membership profile.
- Change their password.
- Choose their editing preferences (e.g., WYSWYG or PHP Markdown or none).
- Add news to the home page.
- Edit their own news items.
Administrator level membership
Admistrator level provides the following:
- Create new pages.
- Edit all pages.
- Delete all pages.
- Create news items.
- Edit all news items.
- Add new page categories.
- Edit categories.
- Delete categories
- Add new navigation bars.
- Edit navigation bars.
- Delete navigation bars.
- List all pages on the site.
- Add images
- List images
- Upload files.
- List uploaded files.
- Add new members
- View all membership profiles.
- Edit all membership profiles.
- Choose whether author and modified date appears on content pages.
- Email all members
- Change their password.
- Choose their editing preferences (e.g., WYSWYG or PHP Markdown or none).
- Turn on/off friendly URLs.
- Set Weblog prefs (number listed, number of words in each news item) and so on
- Turn off or on markup validation.