Permissions

Delegation is the key to making your web site successful.  If only one person can administer the content of your site they will become a bottleneck in the site being used.  By giving web site permissions to those who have responsibility for different areas, you empower them to manage areas of the web site by themselves.

The golden rules of permissions

There are two important rules to the way permissions are assigned for each group in the web office:

Rule 1 - peer security

Permission to perform a particular task in a group may only be given by someone who already holds that permission for that group.  For example if you would like to be able to create a document in the church life folder you must be given that permission by someone who holds the documents and media permission for the church life folder. 

In the permissions view the only permissions you will be allowed to see are those permissions which you already hold.

Rule 2 - permissions propagate 

Any permission you hold for a particular group you will automatically hold for any sub-groups.  For example, the youth pastor who has the documents and media permission at the children and family group will automatically have that same permission for the youth, creche and sunday school sub-groups.  He will also have the same permissions for any new sub-groups which are subsequently added.