Setting up users and roles
Managing users requires
admin access. If you are logged in as an editor, member, or viewer, you will not be able to access this settings menu.As an admin user, you can create, edit, and delete users that have access to your community in the Users view.
The Users view shows a list of all of the users that have access to your Terrastories community, and their respective level of access ("Role").
There are currently four Roles for a Terrastories community:
- 1.
admin- has permission to view, add, or edit data (restricted and non-restricted); add or edit users; and change Theme settings. - 2.
editor- has permission to view, add, or edit data (restricted and non-restricted). - 3.
member- has permission to view data (restricted and non-restricted). - 4.
viewer- has permission to view data (non-restricted only).
There are several fields you can fill out for a User.
- The ones that are required are Username, Password and Role.
- The user's Display Name and Photo are currently only used in the content management system and a few areas on the main application, but we may start to use these more in the future.
- It is also recommended setting an Email as we may make it possible in the future to permit users to recover their password if they've lost it.
