DotAdmin User Guide

Editing Admin Groups

Note: Only authors with Super Admin clearance in the Main admin group can create and edit Admin Groups. If you do not have these permissions, the settings discussed below will not be available to you.

Each Site Author in the dotAdmin system belongs to an Admin Group. These groups control which zones an author can access. Creating and editing Admin Groups is a simple process, and is demonstrated by example below.

Creating a New Admin Group

To create a new Admin Group, click on the Create Admin Group icon shown in the image below.

The Create Admin Group Interface.

First, provide a name for the new Admin Group. Names cannot be more than 12 characters long, and must contain only alphanumeric characters and the underscore “_” character.

Next, we need to decide which zones this new group of users will have access to. This is done by checking the checkboxes for each zone in the list of zones shown in the example above.

Note that if a selected zone contains other zones, these zones will be automatically selected too. For example: Selecting the “Store” zone allows access to all the zones within the Store. These sub-zones cannot be individually de-selected.

Finally, click the “Create” button. Your new Admin Group is now shown in the User Management interface.

Editing and Deleting Admin Groups

Admin Groups can be edited in order to change which zones a Group has access to. Clicking the Edit icon shown in the image below will display the same interface used for creating a Group, allowing the selected zones to be changed.

Admin Group Edit and Delete controls.

To delete an Admin Group, click the delete icon. The system will warn you if the group contains users, as shown in the image below.

Deleting a Group which contains users.

If you delete a group which contains users, those users will also be deleted. If you want to keep the users you must first edit each of them and assign them to a different group. Then the condemned group can be deleted safely.