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Managing Permissions

For each feature instance, you can allow specific roles to help manage the feature instance. This section explains how to grant these privileges.

Available Permissions

This section lists the available feature-level permissions.

Can Administer Calendars

The Can Administer Calendars permission allows the user to do the following:

  • Create calendars in this feature instance.

  • Edit calendars that were created in this feature instance (their names and descriptions—but not their calendar items).

  • Delete calendars that were created in this feature instance.

  • Subscribe the feature instance to a particular calendar that was created elsewhere. (This does not pertain to the user’s ability to add a personal subscription to their My Calendar feed. Users do not need a special permission for personal subscriptions.)

Though this permission is called Can Administer Calendars, it does not give users access to the admin bar and its administrative options (Access, Options, Settings, Layout and Rearrange). If you want to give a role access to the options on the admin bar, this can only be done by giving the role the Can Admin privilege for the context, which is a much bigger privilege overall (as described in the Allow a Role to Administer a Context section).

Can Administer Calendar Items

The Can Administer Calendar Items permission allows the user to do the following:

  • Add calendar items to existing calendars in this feature instance.

  • Edit and delete calendar items that belong to the calendars in this feature instance.

How To

Grant a Role a Permission in the Calendar Feature

To grant a role any of the instance-level permissions for the Calendar feature, use the following procedure.

  1. Navigate to the appropriate feature instance.

  2. Click the wrench icon in the upper-right corner of the page.

    The admin bar displays.

  3. Click the Access link in the admin bar.

    The system displays the Access page, which lists all the roles defined for this context as well as all the global roles. Roles that have access to the page are highlighted in green. Roles that do not have access to the page are shaded gray.

  4. Locate the role that should be allowed to post items or administer the feature instance, and take one of the following steps:

    • If the role is highlighted in green, this means the role already has permission to view the page. Click the role to display a dialog that lists the permissions available in each of the features found on the page.

    • If the role is shaded gray, this means the role does not have access to view the page. You must first grant the role access to the page before you grant permissions. To do so, click the role and then click the Hidden button to change it to Visible. Now that the role can view the page, the screen refreshes to list the permissions available in each of the features found on the page.

  5. Under the list of permissions for the Calendar feature, click the button next to a permission to change its setting to Yes.