Managing roles, groups, and users

This section contains information and instructions for the configuration of roles, groups, and users.

IXIA CCMS Web and IXIA CCMS Desktop share the same configuration. Users have the same roles, groups and access rights on both platforms. You can use TEXTML Administration perspective in IXIA CCMS Desktop for all your configuration changes.

You can configure CCMS users, and then give them the appropriate roles and add them to the appropriate groups.

A typical sequence is:

Create a role or roles
Create a group or groups
Create a user or users
Associate users with roles
Add users to groups

Table 1. Group examples
Sample grouping	Examples	Member functions
Product-based	Widget group Widget Pro group	Team lead, writers, editors, translators, subject matter experts (SMEs)
Location-based	Montreal team Buenos Aires team	Team lead, writers, editors, translators, SMEs
Seniority-based	Newcomer writers Intermediate writers Advanced writers	Writers

Groups and Content Level Security (CLS)

Groups are integral to CLS. See IXIA CCMS Administration Guide For On-Premise and SaaS Deployments to understand it from the system administration perspective. Access to content in a DRM branch is configured by group. For example, you can grant members of the Widget group read/write access to content in the Widget product branches, while members of the WidgetPro group have either read-only access or no access at all to content in those branches.

Functions available only to Advanced Users

For licensing purposes, MadCap Software currently separates out two distinct groups: a standard users group for users that typically act as contributors and reviewers and an advanced users group for users that typically act as authors of content. The advanced users group has access to the following Oxygen functions:

Create a conref
Edit the content as XML
Edit an attribute
Generate an ID
Insert a section
Insert a variable
Reuse content