Security

On the Security tab of each media library, you can assign permissions for particular actions to:

 

Nobody - nobody can perform the action
All users - all users including anonymous site visitors can perform the action
Authenticated users - only signed-in site members can perform the action
Authorized roles - only members of roles selected by the check-boxes below can perform the action

 

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When editing media library of some group, permissions for particular actions can be assigned to:

 

Nobody - nobody can perform the action
All users - all users including anonymous site visitors can perform the action
Authenticated users - only signed-in site members can perform the action
Group members - only members of the group can perform the action
Authorized roles - only members of group roles selected by the check-boxes below can perform the action

 

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The following table shows which permissions need to be assigned to allow users to perform particular actions. Global administrators can perform all of these actions for all general and group media libraries on the site. Group administrators can perform all of these actions for group media libraries of groups where she is the group administrator.

 

 

Action/Permission

 

 

File

Folder

 

Read

Manage

 

Create

Delete

Modify

Create

Delete

Modify

See library content

Media library content administration - files

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

upload

 

X

or

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

rename / change title and description

 

X

or

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

delete

 

X

or

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

copy

 

X

or

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

move

 

X

or

 

 

X

 

 

 

 

Media library content administration - folders

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

create

 

X

or

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

rename

 

X

or

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

delete

 

X

or

 

 

 

 

X

 

 

copy

 

X

or

 

 

 

X

 

 

 

move

 

X

or

 

 

 

 

 

X

 

CMSDesk administration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See media libraries UI

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Modify media libraries UI

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Live site administration

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See media libraries UI

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Modify media libraries UI

 

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CMSDesk & Live site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Select image/flash/media dialogs in WYSIWYG editor

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Live site

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

See and browse library content (Media gallery webpart)

X

 

or

 

 

 

 

 

 

X

Upload file (Media file uploader webpart)

 

X

or

X

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Module permissions

 

The following permissions can be set in Site Manager -> Administration -> Permissions, when you choose the Modules -> Media libraries permission matrix:

 

Display module - makes the module visible in the administration interface
Manage - allows managing of groups via the administration interface
Read - allows seeing the values in group settings, but does not allow to make any changes to them

 

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