Manager
Digest
The Manager role is the second highest role. It has many of the permissions 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.
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Introduction to Managers
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
Managers and Groups
When creating a group as a Manager, the new group will be pre-populated with the current manager user. Because managers can only view groups to which they belong, this ensures that groups don't "disappear" upon creation. If desired, a manager may remove him/herself from the group. In this case the group will no longer be visible to that user.
Technical
Bypassing a Workflow as a Manager
Bypassing a workflow is only an option for administrator or manager level users.
To bypass a workflow, when editing an asset, simply ensure that the Workflow checkbox is unmarked under Advanced Options, and just above the Submit button. If the Workflow checkbox is not shown, click Advanced Options to reveal the various options available.
Deleting a Workflow as a Manager
Once initiated, a workflow may only be deleted by the initiating user, an administrator or a manager. Deleting a workflow will cause all changes to be lost.
To delete an active workflow:
- Select the desired workflow from My Workflows under Outstanding Items or the Workflows tab your Dashboard.
- Select the Delete tab, then click Submit to delete the workflow.
- You will be returned to your Dashboard, and the message bar will verify that the delete action was successful.
PLEASE NOTE - Deleting a workflow will also cause all changes to be lost.