22 Working with Blog Authors
On the sample blog pages, the author's full name and image are displayed next to the author's blog posts. This section provides instructions on creating blog author assets, which contain author information. This section also provides instructions on granting users access to their own blog author assets.
The following topics provide information about working with blog authors:
Creating Author Assets
To display a blog author's full name and image next to the author's blog posts, you must create an author asset in which you specify that user's full name and optionally, an image.
To create an author asset:
How to Set Access Permissions to a Blog Author Asset
A blog author asset contains the profile of the content provider who creates blog content for the website. Setting access permissions for a blog author asset entails the following steps:
Assigning the Role to the Blog Author
- Select the Site tree, expand the Site Admin node, and then expand the node of the author's site. Double-click Users.
- In the Username field, enter the name of the user to which you want to assign the role, and click Select.
- Click the Edit (pencil) icon.
- In the Edit Roles for User form, select the role you created in steps 2 and 3.
- Click Save.
Setting Access Permissions to a Blog Author Asset
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Access the blog author asset to which you want to set permissions:
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In the button bar, click Search.
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Click Find Blog Author.
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Click Search.
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Select the blog author asset.
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In the blog author's Inspect form, select the more... menu, and choose Access Permissions.
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Select the View by role radio button.
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In the Roles list, select the role you created in Assigning the Role to the Blog Author.
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In the Inherited list, select all the functions (shift-click the first and last functions), and click Grant.
All the functions in the Inherited list move to the Granted list.
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Click Save.
The only user who can work with this blog author asset, besides the administrator, is the blog author who is assigned the selected role.