Permissions Dependencies

Editing permissions is one of the more advanced and complex administrative features of The Digital Bell. If you are attempting to create a new User Group, edit a User that does not belong to any Groups, or give a user access to a component outside their User Group defaults (ex. letting a Teacher work with Forms or Posts), we recommend reading the following.

The permissions in The Digital Bell are highly granular, and many permissions have additional permissions that they are dependent upon to work correctly. For example, when assigning permissions to a new account, setting the "Pages" component's "Edit" function to "Allow" will technically give the user permission to edit pages. However, without additional settings, they will not be able to add content, or even view the list of pages.

The ability to actually edit pages is dependent on the permission to view the list of pages, whether they should be able to edit their own pages or all pages ("Edit Own" or "Edit Any"), and the various permissions that allow a user to work with webpage content (Text Blocks, Images, Links, etc). These additional permissions are called dependencies.

NOTE: Before manually editing user/group permissions, please see the list of built-in User Groups to ensure there is not an existing User Group that meets your needs.

The following sections (Working with ...) are intended to lay out the minimum permissions that should be set to "allow" to enable a user to work with the given system. The "Base Permissions" are required for any user that will be working with the given system (i.e. if a user will interact with pages/posts/events at all). Below the "Base Permissions" are additional use cases (edit