Janet Swisher wrote:
One thing to realize about how the English site is managed (if you are
trying to do something similar), is that we don't really use "roles" (in
Plone terms). Instead we use "groups". So, to give someone "author"
permissions, we add them to the "authors" group (which has "author"
permissions). We sometimes talk about giving someone the "author role",
but technically, that's not correct.
Janet, I don't think that is quite true. In the past when I added
people to the groups, they did not automatically get assigned the
associated role. So Daniel showed me how to assign people to
roles as well as groups.
I don't know if Daniel's method is still necessary, since several
changes have been made to the website since then. But I use it
anyway.
Leo Moons wrote,
how do you add somebody to the "authors" group and what should an author be able to do?
Leo, here is what Daniel told me to do:
Go to this page, http://oooauthors.org/acl_users/manage_users
Find the person's username and either click on it (to go to a
page where you can select the groups and roles for that person)
or (if you want to assign the same roles to a group of people)
select the checkbox next to the names and scroll to the bottom of
the page, where you will fine two column labelled "Affect groups"
and "Affect roles". Select the groups and roles there, then click
Change. Warning: this page takes forever to load.
--Jean
