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Collection Permissions

This panel lets you select high-level Permission settings for the current Collection.

By default, for most collections (except Forums), this panel looks like this:

Collection Permissions

Owner:

The owner defined here will have almost all permissions on the current collection.

See the Collection Owner page for more information.

Permission Management: (Simple vs. Advanced Permissions)

If you need more granular permissions (e-g: several authors, editors & moderators for the collection, switch from "Simple permissions" to "Advanced permissions".

When you switch to advanced permissions, the options in the panel change a little:

Collection Permissions

And more importantly, 2 new tabs appear: User perms & Group perms:

Collection Permissions

Allow access to:

With simple permissions management, you can choose between:

  • Making the collection completely public
  • Allowing access only to logged-in Users
  • Allowing access only to the owner define above (private collection – although Admins will also have access)

With advanced permissions management, you can choose between:

  • Making the collection completely public
  • Allowing access only to logged-in Users
  • Allowing access only to the members of the collection. You can define who is a member in the User perms & Group perms tabs.
Tags: 7.0.2
Created by mgsolipa • Last edit by fplanque on 2019-12-01 21:46 • •

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