Developing an access control strategy

You can restrict access to selected users and groups to the views within an authoring portlet, the items managed by the authoring portlet, and to elements and pages displayed within a Web site.

Using item type roles within a library
You define the role of a user or group for each item type used within a library. The roles determine the default library access of a user or group, as well as defining different access to individual tasks and views within the authoring portlet.
Defining roles within a library
You define item type roles within the Portal Content section of the IBM^® WebSphere^® Portal Express administration portlet.
Library access control example
This example shows how item type roles can be used to grant different groups specific access to different features in the authoring portlet.
Item access controls
You use access controls to determine what level of access a user or group has to an item, and who has access to an item on the live Web site.
Granting users or groups access to an item
Specify the access control settings for the current item to designate which users have access to an item and their level of access. The access section is common to all item forms.
Batch-editing access controls
An administrator can apply access control settings for multiple items.

Parent topic: Developing a Web content system