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Contensis system groups

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Various system user groups are provided in your Contensis environment, ready for you to assign users and content permissions.

The following system groups give global permission across all projects in a Contensis instance:

AD Users

Users logging in using Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS) are added to this group.

API Key Administrators

Users in this group can create, update, delete, enable and disable API keys.

CMS Editors

Users need to be in this group to be able to log in to the CMS. The Everyone group is a child group of the CMS Editors group.

Everyone

This is a default group to which every user is added when their account is created. The Everyone group is a child group of the CMS Editors group.

Role Administrators

Users in this group can manage user roles, allowing them to create, update and delete roles as well as assign permissions to different system resources.

Site View Administrators

Users in this group can create and manage nodes in site view, as well as assign entries to locations in your site structure.

User Administrators

Users in this group can create and manage exisiting users in Contensis, but not create System Administrator accounts.

System Administrators

Membership of this group gives full access to all functionality in Contensis.

Deprecated groups

The following groups have been deprecated as of Contensis 16.1 and been replaced with support in roles.

  • Component Administrators
  • Content Type Administrators

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