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Permission Levels

Permission Levels

Overview

This document outlines the permission levels we provide on our Drupal web sites

Level 1 - Personnel Editor

Reserved for faculty, staff and sometimes graduate students. Any faculty, staff or student of a unit can request this permission level. You should reach out to your unit administrator to request this access. If you do not know who your unit admin is, please create a helpdesk ticket to get this information. 

  • Can only edit their own personnel page. They must be made an "author" of their personnel page to edit it. 

Level 2 - Web Committee

Reserved for people other than the unit administrator who manage general content on the website. Unit Heads or Unit Administrators are the only people that can request this permission level for their staff. Unit Administrators can grant this access. Documentation for creating web committee accounts is available. 

  • Has all permissions of Level 1 PLUS

  • Can add, edit, and unpublish any piece of content

  • View, revert and delete revisions

  • Work with menus

Level 3 - Unit Administrator

Reserved for the main contact of the department's website. No more than two people may have this role: a primary and a backup. Unit Heads are the only people that can request this permission level for their staff. Please create a helpdesk ticket to make this request.

  • Has all permissions of Level 2 PLUS

  • Can edit any piece of content

  • Can run Link Sanitizer

  • Add/edit/arrange blocks

  • Add/edit/delete Taxonomy classifications

  • Can add personnel user accounts

  • Can add web committee accounts

  • Can view site user list

  • Can "masquerade" as any user at a lower level (personnel editors, web committee)

  • Can modify color scheme under "Appearance"

  • Has permission to create URL redirects

  • Has responsibility for training users who request web committee access for managing site content

Level 4 - Administrator

Reserved for Franklin OIT web team OR Non-Franklin Units who manage their own instances.

  • Has all permissions of Level 3 PLUS

  • Add, edit, delete users

  • Adjust/create roles/permissions

  • Add/Edit/Delete Views

  • Manage Content types and fields