• Roles In Liferay 7 DXP


    Roles In Liferay Determines what an user can do and what an user can access in the portal, let's have a closer look at the Roles System of Liferay.

    What is a Role In Liferay ?

    Roles of an User in Liferay defines
    1. What are the actions User can perform in the Portal (action permissions) in the given scopes
    2. What are the contents the User can access in the portal (resource permissions) in the given scopes

    Types of Roles In Liferay 


    Regular Role or Portal Role

    When these roles are assigned to the user, the role's permissions are available to the User across the Portal Instance, the sub hierarchies such as Sites, Organization and User Groups.

    Site Role

    When a Site Role is assigned to an Site User, The permissions of the Role to the User Will be applicable only inside the Site and will not applicable for the User in other sites.


    Organization Role

    When an Organization Role is assigned to an Organization User, The permissions of the Role to the User Will be applicable only inside the Organization and will not applicable for the User in other Organizations.

    Regular Roles Avaialble In Liferay 


    Guest

    Guest User will be having very minimal set of permissions in the portal and are non authenticated users


    Owner

    This is can be applied to the User who is the owner of certain entities in Liferay

    Administrator

    Administrator User can access almost anything in the portal and any action in the portal and can access Sites organization and any object without any constarints 


    User

    This is the basic Role Given to an User when the user is authenticated into the Portal. 


    Power User

    This Role have the same permissions as that of the User Role, we can use this Role Just to distinguish the normal user from this previllaged role and give more access.

    Site Roles Avaialble In Liferay 


    Site Administrator

    It enables the Site Administrator User the ability to manage different assets of the sites such Site Pages, Site Membership, Site Contents and Site Settings. 


    Site Member

    This Role grants permissions to visit the privates pages of the sites and its contents including public pages


    Site Owner

    This Role is same as that of the Site Administrator Role except that it provides the ability to manage the different aspects of the sites such as deleting the site membership or roles including Site Administrator


    Organization Roles Avaialble In Liferay 


    Organization Administrator

    It enables the Organization Administrator User the ability to manage different assets of the Organization such Site Pages, Organization Membership, Organization Site Contents and Organization Site Settings.


    Organization Owner

    This Role is same as that of the Organization Administrator Role except that it provides the ability to manage the different aspects of the Organization such as deleting the Organization membership or roles including Organization Administrator


    Organization User

    This Role grants user the ability to visit the Organization Site Pages when the user belongs to the Organization

    Apart from all the above roles, we can create our own Regular, Site and Organization Roles with our own permissions in the control panel.


  • 0 comments:

    Post a Comment