Users and Groups

Taking advantage of the "users and groups" manager in the WebMedley Management Console can allow you to have several different people working on your Web site at the same time without chance of conflict or errors. It can also allow you to give different users different permissions, allowing them access only to parts of the Web site that you designate.

The following are examples of ways you might use groups to take advantage of the "Users and Groups" tool in you WebMedley Management Console.

(Note: these methods are most valuable to those who will have several users, several pages, or will be assigning many different permissions to many different groups.)

Method 1: Create a group for every page on your Web site.
Creating a new group for every page on your Web site can allow you to quickly allow a user to manage one or many pages. 

1. Create a new group for every single page on your Web site. 
2. For every single page, click on the  button and give the group for that page "view" and "edit" permissions. 
3. Return to your user's list.  Click on a user you'd like to assign to a group.  By clicking on  you can allow them to edit and view any page you want by inserting them into those appropriate groups. 

(This method is useful when you have a lot of pages, but few users on your account.)

Method 2: Create a group for every user on your account.
Creating a group for every user on your account will make it easy for you to give users permission to edit existing pages. 

1. Create a new group for every user on you WebMedley account, and enter that user into their respective group (again by clicking on the  button). 
2. Now, for every new page that you create, you can quickly decide who will be managing that page by clicking on the  button, and giving the appropriate group (containing that user) ther permissions you desire for that page.

This method is useful when you have a lot of users, but few pages on your account.

Method 3: Assigning permissions to groups only for Main pages.
This method is the happy medium between methods 1 and 2, and is the most traditional way of managing permissions on your account.  This method involves grouping your pages and users together, and assigning permissions to the main pages, to a group of users which all have a common bond. 

For example: You may have 3 different groups:

• Youth
• Pastors
• Staff  

- Members of the "youth" group would have permission to manage the "Youth" page and its subpages (containing a "schedule of events" page).

- Members of the "Pastors" group would have permission to manage the "pastor's message" page and all of it's subpages (containing an "associate pastors" page).

- Members of the "staff" group would have permission to manage the "Newsletter" page and it's subapges (containing a "Newsletter archive" page), and the "About Us" page and it's subpages (containing a "contact us" page). 

This allows groups of users (which all have something in common) to manage their own respective pages (which all have something in common), yet prevent those groups from deleting or compromising other pages on your Web site.