Group permissions where called functional rights in the last versions.

Group Permissions most often protect admin panel and application access. They are linked to User Groups.

If a User is member of several User Groups, the highest (positive) permissions will be used.

The following listing is an overview of all existing group permission.

• admin_categorys - Allows to administrate Categories (edit, create, move and delete Categories).
• admin_configurations - Allows to change Configurations.
• admin_items - Allows to administrate Items (edit, upload ad delete Images and Files).
• admin_menus - Allows to administrate Menus (create and delete Menus).
• admin_users - Allows to administrate User (edit, create and delete user, change Group mapping).
• autojobs.admin - Configure and activate/deactivate autojobs.
• community.admin - Allows to edit the Community-Domain Mapping for all Communities.
• community.deinstallation - Allows to deinstall Communities. SECURITY WARNING!
• community.installation - Allows to add new Communities to this installation.
• community.maintenance - Allows to edit the Website Maintenance State and Message.
• edit.portlet.settings - Allows to open, edit and save the Portlet settings for each Page, the User has write rights on.
• edit.usergroup - Allows to edit the Usergroups and their Member links.
• editor.html.sourcecode - Allows to access the HTML Sourcecode.
• edit_frights - Allows to administrate the User Group Permission.
• edit_items - Allows to edit Items (update existing ones).
• edit_menus - Allows to edit Menus (use Editor, Workflow).
• edit_own_profile - Allows to edit the Users own Profile.
• export_database - Allows to export the community database.
• group_frights - Allows to edit the Group-to-Permission mapping. SECURITY WARNING!
• languages_all_rights - Allows to administrate the languages.
• logging.messages - Allows to read and clean up all Log messages.
• module_all_rights - Allows to administrate the installed modules.
• smarty.designs.edit - Edit existing and create new Page Designs.
• smarty.stylesheets.edit - Edit existing and create new Stylesheets.
• smarty.templates.edit - Edit existing and create new Smarty Templates.
• system_admin - Allows access to some hidden admin plugins.
• updates_manager - Allows to manage and install Updates.
• use_editor - Allows to edit page content with an editor. If deactivated the {permission_editcontent} TAG will return false.
• view_statistics - Allows to view statistics.

User:

• User A is member of the Usergroups B1 and B2
• User B is member of the Usergroups B1
• User C is member of the Usergroups B2 and B3

Usergroups:

• Group B1 has the Group permissions F1 und F2
• Group B2 has the Group permissions F1 und F4
• Group B3 has the Group permissions F3 and F4

Results:

• User A has therefor the permissions F1, F2 and F4
• User B has therefor the permissions F1 and F2
• User C has therefor the permissions F1, F3 and F4