User Accounts
- Bragg, Colin
User accounts are created to provide access to website management controls, but may also be used to store data about people in your organization.
For EmoryHealth websites, the decision was made to create a Content Type called Person to store information about people.
About User Roles and Permissions
When a user account is created, the user is assigned a User Role. That role has specific website management permissions assigned to it.
The training (staging) site is for users with the role of Content Editor. Here is a list of the other Roles your organization will have available for management of the site.
- Administrator
- Developer
- Site Builder
- Content Administrator
- Content Author
- Content Editor
- User Administrator
- Authenticated User
- Anonymous User
One of the most basic features of administering user website permissions with Drupal is through the creation of roles. Rather than assigning individual permissions to each user, permissions are assigned to roles and roles are then assigned to users. Using roles gives administrators greater control over permissions and makes it easy to assign and remove roles broadly across users, when necessary.