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Permission to Use the Menus Feature

There are two ways to create a menu. Each has its own permission model.

Menu Creation Method

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How to set permissions

Via the Workarea’s Content> Menus tab

 

The user must be one of the following.

a member of the Administrators user group

assigned the Collection and Menu Admin role. See Also: Defining Roles

granted permissions to Collections for the root folder. This is an advanced permission. See Also: Setting Permissions through the Permissions Table

Via the View Contents of Folder screen’s New > Menu option

 

See Permissions for Menus Created from the View Contents of Folder Screen

Permissions for Menus Created from the View Contents of Folder Screen

Only users with permission to use the Collections feature (illustrated below) for a folder can work with menus. If user does not have permission to Collections, the Menu option does not appear on the New menu.

Also, if a user has permission to Collections but Read Only permission for content and the library, he cannot add content from a navigation link.


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