Questions tagged [editor-user-permissions]
For questions that relate to defining, configuring and/or restrictions permissions of users in the Sitecore client interfaces (Content Editor, Experience Editor, etc.)
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How do I lock user permissions for a shared item on a page without it throwing a runtime error for a user that does not have permissions to that item?
Fairly new to Sitecore (10.1.3) and trying to add role permissions to snippets in the shared data folder. Made it so only certain roles would have the ability to fully edit a snippet item, all others ...
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How are Attach Permissions Governed for Image Types [duplicate]
We have some elevated users who occasionally need to update particular images in our system. These images reside in our media library and the users (through their roles) have been granted every ...
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Permissions for Content Editor Ribbons
I've been trying to grant access to the Configure ribbon (specifically the Template strip) in Content Editor to a role which currently can't see it. I've been trying to do this through read ...
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Can We Affect Visibility of Review History?
In the Content Editor of Sitecore 9, there's a dropdown on the Review ribbon for viewing the History of an item (who made what changes to it when, and so on). It's not currently visible to very many ...
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Hide items from admins
Is there any way to hide items in the content tree from admins? Only specific users would be visible. I already tried with the security editor etc..
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Need to know which role to enable to get Indexing Section Enabled
I have a user that we dont want to give admin access to, but still want some of the functionallity from it. The indexing section to where you can boost values, rules and include in search is all ...
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Sitecore permission to Move item for role which Doesn't have delete permissions [duplicate]
There is a requirement that the client wants the basic Author role to have the rights to move the items in the content tree. But, that role is denied the rights to delete. From what I understand, ...
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Disabling Form elements for non-administrators
We want to disable specific Form elements in Sitecore Forms for all users that aren't administrators.
I tried to do so by setting the read permission to deny on the field type (under /sitecore/system/...
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How to disable content editing to users other than content owners and super admin in Sitecore workflow
We need to disable 'lock and edit' option for authors other than content owner who initiated the workflow. I able to achieve this by changing the below settings in Sitecore.config
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Sitecore Form Module Security Editor
In the sitecore\Forms Editor role access is provided as below:
This security works fine in Content Editor, that is:
It allows to create or edit items only in the English language but not in other ...
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Permissions for Sitecore Forms
I have 2 requirements:
How can we make sure that Content Author should not be able to edit a form that is saved as template. They should only be able to create forms from a template, but not edit the ...
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Permissions to use preview and Experience editor
I am trying to set up a user profile to only allow someone to add items to one page on our site. I seem to have almost everything configured correctly, but for some reason the below error happens ...
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Approver role doesn't see the workflow actions
I have created a workflow and two roles - author & approver. Also assigned permissions for the respective workflow states to each role.
There are 4 Workflow states:
Draft
|_Submit
Awaiting ...
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Sitecore role in site1 when installed to site2, missing some restrictions in site2
For the new developer role we restricted access to Development tools in source site.When this role is packaged and installed in target site, it has permission to Development tools. How do we fix this ...
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A Sitecore user sees significantly more items having been updated on publish than another user with same permissions
Scenario:
Sitecore.NET 8.1 (rev. 151207 Hotfix 114141-2)
two Sitecore users (non-admin)
both accounts with almost same permission roles
publishing from the same root item path:
smart publish true
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How can I disable drag-and-drop functions on GUI in the Content Editor?
I am currently working on a project using Sitecore version 8.2.7 and our client asked us if we can disable drag-and-drop function so that they do not have to worry about any accidental item deletion.
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Sitecore Media Library Permission Restrictions
Instance of Sitecore 8.2 is set up with one main website and multiple sub-websites.
Each sub-website has their own set of users/roles and a folder in the media library. Initially every role has full ...
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Decreasing security rights on sitecore role
I have a role which is inheriting for other roles (one of which is sitecore\Designer). The role now has all access rights to Templates and its sub items.
Now I want to reduce the access rights such ...
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Multisite publishing issue in SXA
Using SXA 1.6 and Sitecore 9.0.1 , we have an environment with single tenant and multi sites ex: site1 , site2 ,.. we setup OOB security so only users in site1 can edit their content only and same for ...
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Granting a role access to a field
I have a component in my sitecore instance called an Article Download component. One of the fields for this component is called Download Item and it is the type link (not General Link). My authors are ...
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Restriction on selecting multiple Publishing Targets for specific Users / Roles
Specific user roles need to be restricted from selecting multiple publishing targets (in this example it is CDPublish and CMPublish) for publishing items in Sitecore.
For example: Administrator ...
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Security Roles required for Web Forms For Marketers email save action
I have been trying to tidy up permissions on our Sitecore install. My admin account has every permission haphazardly applied which causes all kinds of issues, but I can create WFFM forms with email ...
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How to correctly login as Virtual User to use the Sitecore Content Editor? (Avoid Media Library Search redirects)
I have a situation where I need to use VirtualLogin to enable a user to access the sitecore shell and use the Content Editor / Media Library editor.
This is the code for the Virtual Login (from many ...
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Default language AD users 1.3 - Sitecore 8.2.u2
"The security settings for the current language prevent you from seeing this item"
New users from the AD tries to reach the English version of the site, because their Default Content Language is set ...
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Disable the "Edit Experience Editor Options" button for my editor users
I have a number of users which should have access to create/edit/delete content on my site, including inserting new components to pages. To ensure that they can insert and change components I have ...
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Remove EDIT button in Navigation Bar
Can anyone know how I can remove "EDIT" button in Navigation Bar?
The navigation check-box fires the command "webedit:ToggleTreecrumb". Is there any way to deny "READ" access on this "EDIT" button? ...
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Can I exclude items that the current user doesn't have Read access to from display in the Content Tree?
I have removed Read access to some items for certain a Role. The problem is that I can still see the items that I removed access to in the tree, when logging in as a (non-admin) user with the role ...
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Is it possible to limit the "sitecore\Sitecore Client Account Managing" role?
Is it possible to limit the sitecore\Sitecore Client Account Managing role?
Our client has a team that manages security accounts on their site and they are requesting a "limited" sitecore\Sitecore ...
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Dynamic User Permissions for Shared Datasource Items
Due to a recent mishap, our client is requesting that when a Content Author tries to edit an item we first check to see if the item is used as a datasource for any items that the Content Author does ...
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Make text field readonly
Is there any easier way of creating read-only fields for all users except admin, not by setting permissions on every user or by creating a role and assigning it to every user/group?
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Sitecore 8 Security Editor - Read vs Visibility
In the Security Editor, I can set Read, Write, Delete, etc. permissions on an item.
Can someone tell me the difference between Read and Visibility permissions? What's the proper use of Visibility?
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How to Restrict by Role Adding Rendering to Placeholder in Experience Editor
Would anyone know a way to restrict/allow by role the ability to add a rendering to a placeholder in the Experience Editor? This is for Sitecore 8.0.
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Where is shared and final layout in the security Editor
I want to let the editors change between shared layout and final layout in the Experience Editor, but currently, they can't view that option without adding a new role to them.
How can I grant access ...
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How to revoke publishing of sub-items for a role?
I need to prevent certain roles from publishing sub-items.
I was able to hide the 'Sub-items' option in the publish dialog by revoking 'Read' from '/sitecore/system/Settings/Security/Policies/...
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