There are multiple types of "authors" on the DX Platform. Your access to the site is moderated through your OKTA authentication.
How Different Author Roles Work:
Here is an accordion list of information about how the different author types
All authors will typically hold a "Writer," "Editor," or "Publisher" role to be able to submit content to their agency website.
Note that there are fewer publishers in any pool of users, and use of the platform requires publishers to be in communication with writers and editors to determine which items are ready for publication.
All users with the privilege to log into the site are considered "website authors"
They have the ability to create and edit content as well as upload media items such as images, documents (PDFs) and remote video (such as YouTube links).
Writers are the most common author on the site:
Writers have the ability to create and edit their own content
Writers can save content as "Draft" format. They cannot publish content (that privilege is retained to the publisher role and higher).
All content that Writers create, is stored as a "Draft" format until Publishers or Agency managers switch it to ready for publication.
Editors are able to do the same as writer but Editors can additionally:
Create and edit any content on the site. They may not publish content (that privilege is retained to the publisher role and higher).
Publishers are able to do everything a writer and editor can do but Publishers can additionally:
Publish and unpublish content.
archiving meeting minutes after 4 years
moving a review item, to Published status
moving a Draft press release, to Published press release
Agency Managers have access to all functions. There are at most 3 agency managers assigned per agency.
They also have elevated privileges such as:
Setting Homepage behavior with respect to search box
Creating GTM codes
Creating Taxonomy
Changing color palettes site-wide
Creating Alerts or Scheduling Alerts to be published or unpublished
Special Note to keep in mind
If an author/user has been decommissioned from the site then all of the pages that they made will need to have the authors changed to another team member so that you can make edits to or delete the content that they created. If this is not done you will run into an error message when you try to delete it from the content library
All users can move items to the trash but only Agency Managers / Publishers can PERMANENTLY delete files from the site so it is no longer accessible but keep in mind that this could cause broken links if that file may have been linked to from an external site.
All users with a login to the site are considered to be authors.
All authors are explicitly assigned through their agency.
There are no public users on any sites on the platform.
Any edits to existing pages made by an "Editor" require publishing by a "Publisher / Agency Manager's"
As a special note, there are no Administrators allowed on any site on the DX Platform.
