User and Group Overview
What is a user?
A user is an account on Site Manager that gives greater access to the system than being an anonymous site visitor. A user account is generally associated with an individual person and has a unique username to login to the system. The access level usually depends on group membership, but user rights can be set independently if required.
What is a group?
A group is simply a collection of Site Manager users. Groups make it much simpler to set access rights for the website as you assign rights to a group, then add and remove users to and from the group. As their membership changes, so do their user rights.
Standard settings
Site Manager comes with 2 standard groups already set up: Site Manager users and Site Manager administrators.The Site Manager administrator group is very powerful and should only be used by senior staff who have sufficient authority and who know what they are doing on the system. The Site Manager user group can still do a lot on the site including creating and publishing pages, however cannot amend forms, templates or users.
Tip
The most common variation to the standard settings is to remove Publishing rights from Site Manager users. This means only Site Manager administrators can publish pages.
