Using Permissions

The permissions application allows you to create permission groups, which, when applied to a user, gives that user access to different applications. A permission group can be thought of as a set of keys which unlocks different applications or aspects of an application to a user. What this means is that normal users have no rights to do anything, it is only as they are assigned permission groups that applications open up to them.

1. Click on “Permissions” in the left-hand menu.
2. Click on “Add New Permission Group” in the upper right-hand corner.
3. Give a name and description to the group.
4. Each application has a set of fine-grained permissions associated with it so that you can control exactly what a user can see and do in each application. These permissions are grouped by application in the “Available Permissions” box. Select the permissions you want to be in the permission group (you can select multiple items by holding down the CTRL key) and add them to the “Selected Permissions” box by clicking on the → arrow.
5. Save the permission group and apply it to a user via the profile application.

Tip: You can automatically assign permission groups to users via the hooks file.

Super users have access to all aspects of all applications. You can set them in the conf.php file in permission’s config/ directory. By default the admin user is a super user.