As explained earlier, the menu items that appear when you start the ATG Control Center depend on the parts of the product suite that you have installed. However, the options that appear depend also on your security access role, which is set by your company’s ATG Control Center administrator.
The administrator uses the People and Organizations > Control Center Groups option to create a series of roles that correspond to different areas of Web site design and management. Examples might be “application developer,” “designer,” “content editor,” or “business analyst.” He or she defines access privileges for each role; for example, the administrator might give access to the Pages and Components option to the application developer role but not to the business analyst role.
The administrator then uses the People and Organizations > Control Center Users option to create a user profile for everyone who uses the ATG Control Center, and assigns each user one of the roles that he or she has set up. The parts of the ATG Control Center that you can use, therefore, depend on the role you have been assigned.
For more information, please see Managing Access Control in the ATG Programming Guide.
