User Groups in Jdocmanual

If you wish to allow others to help maintain content you may need to create two User Groups:

• JDM Author Allowed to edit content in the default language and other languages.
• JDM Publisher Allowed to commit and publish updated content.

Setting Permissions

The JDM Author group should have Public as its parent. The JDM Publisher group should have JDM Author as its parent.

Users: Viewing Access Levels

JDM Author should be set to the Special Viewing Access level. From the Users / Access Levels page select Special and add JDM Author to the User Groups with Viewing Access.

Global Options

In the Global Options form select the Permissions tab and then the JDM Author item. Set Administrator login to Allowed.

Jdocmanual Options

From the Jdocmanual, Manual page select the Options button. In the Permissions list select JDM Author and set the following to Allowed: - Access Administration Interface - Create - Delete - Edit

Select JDM Publisher and set the following to Allowed: - Publish

Save and Close

If you now login as a user in the JDM Author group you will see the Home Dashboard with some modules not relevant for Jdocmanual.

Turn off the Help menu item

Go to the list of Administrator modules and find the Administrator Menu module. In the Module tab set the Help Menu item to Hide.

Unpublish or restrict Access to modules

In the Administrator modules list find the Logged-in Users item used in the cpanel position (not the cpanel-users position). Either Unpublish it or set Access to Super Users.

Find and unpublish the Popular Articles and Recently Added Articles items for the cpanel position (not the cpanel-content position).

There may be other modules needing similar treatment.

The Home Dashboard should now be empty for a JDM Author.

Who can do what?

JDM Author and JDM Publisher can login but should only have access to the the Home Dashboard and the Jdocmanual component.

JDM Author does not have access to the Commit button in the Article Edit page toolbar so cannot update the git repository or displayed page. Otherwise each can use all other features.

Manager and Administrator can login but will not see the Jdocmanual component.

Author, Editor and Publisher do not have access to the Administrator interface.

Super Users have complete access.