Roles and permissions
How Basker decides what each user can see and change: the built-in roles and how content is shared
Each staff member on your site has a role that decides what they can do. This covers which content they can view, create, edit, publish, or delete. It also covers whether they can change site settings or manage other people.
There is also the Site Owner, a separate per-site designation for the person with overall responsibility for the site. The owner is not one of the roles you assign to staff.
How roles work
A role is a named set of permissions. Permissions are grouped by what they apply to:
- Content: each content type (pages, posts, events, people, venues, and the rest) has its own permissions for View, Create and edit, Publish, and Delete. Media and files have no publish step, so their permissions are View, Create and edit, and Delete. You can grant any combination. A role can let someone edit pages but not publish them, or manage posts without touching events.
- Settings: separate permissions for general settings, security, domains, languages, apps, themes, transferring ownership, and managing roles and staff.
Because permissions are granular, a role can be as broad or as narrow as you need.
Site roles and templates
A site role has a name, an optional description and icon, and any combination of the permissions above. For example, create a content lead who can edit and publish everything but cannot change settings. Or create an editorial contributor who only works with posts.
Role templates can provide a starting permission set. The roles visible to staff are the ones you configure for that site, and their names and permissions vary. Create, rename, and adjust them from the Roles section of Users & Permissions, then assign one when you invite or edit staff.
Changing a staff member's role replaces their selected site role in the Users & Permissions screen.
Sharing content across your sites
If your organization runs multiple Basker sites (or works with partner organizations that do), you can share content between them. Someone can edit a shared piece of content from either site. The role they hold on the site they are working from controls what they can do.
You turn sharing on per item. Open an item's sharing options and pick the sites to share it with. Roles include separate permissions for working with shared content. You can let someone view or edit shared items without giving them the same rights over the site's own content.