Manager
The Manager role is the second highest role. It has many of the powers of the highest role, administrator, but those powers are more limited in scope. Generally, the manager role is used to assign administrator-level privileges to a site or sub-site. Since roles are cumulative, managers have all of the powers of the roles beneath them (publisher, approver, contributor) as well as the power to bypass workflow.
Another key difference between the manager role and the roles beneath them is that they have access to the Administration area to control items like configuration sets, metadata sets, publish sets, data definitions, and workflow definitions. Putting a user in the manager role and setting up the appropriate access rights provides for a user that is fully autonomous in the CMS across assets, sites (targets), and administration components.
For Cascade Server versions 4.0 and higher, Managers may also create users with the role of Manager or lower, and assign access rights within the manager's own area. In addition, Managers can cancel any publish job where the manager user has read access permissions to the asset associated with the publish job be it a Folder, Page, File, Target, or Destination.
Key aspects of the manager role:
- Limited by system access rights
- Access to the Administration area
- Ability to bypass workflow