Permissions
Permissions in Cascade CMS consist of roles, which govern a user's abilities and access to sites or the administration area, and access rights, which allow users to view or edit assets.
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Overview
Permissions in Cascade CMS are best broken into two spheres: system-wide and site-specific. Permissions assigned at the system level affect abilities in the administration area. For example, granting the ability to create new sites, users, and groups are system-wide permissions. Typically, access to a specific set of abilities (Tools, Security, etc.) should be granted as needed to would-be administrators and administrator groups.
Site-level permissions, on the other hand, govern who can access a given site and what they can see and do in that site. For example, as Cascade CMS includes a stock Site Administrator and Site Contributor role, users are initially limited to one of those two access levels when granted access to a site. Of course, most organizations will have different levels of participation and duties to fulfill, and the creation of additional roles is encouraged as needed.
System-wide administrators have administrative-level access to all sites, while non-administrators must be assigned to a site (either individually or as part of a group) to be able to see it. Once assigned to a site, their site-level role assignment will determine their abilities within the site.