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This chapter describes the user roles and how to configure your users and groups to support the authoring and mangement of your mobile apps.
Members of the app-author group are responsible for authoring AEM mobile application content including, pages, text, images and videos.
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Create a new user group called, 'app-authors':
Navigate to the User Admin Console: http://localhost:4502/libs/granite/security/content/groupadmin.html
From within the user group console, select the '+' button to create a the group.
Set the ID of this group to 'app-authors' to denote that it is a specific type of author user group specific to authoring mobile applications within AEM.
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Now that you have created the app-authors User Group, you can add individual team members to this new group through the User Admin console.
Edit user groups
Members of the app-admins group can author application content with the same permissions included with app-authors AND in addition are also responsible for:
- Staging, publishing and clearing application ContentSync OTA updates
Note:
Permissions determine availability of some user actions in the AEM App Command Center.
You'll notice some options are not available for app-authors that are available for app-admins.
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Navigate to the Permissions console and add permissions to administer cloudservices
- (Read, Modify, Create, Delete, Replicate) on /etc/cloudservices/mobileservices
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On the same Permissions console, add permissions to stage, publish and clear app content updates;
- (Read, Modify, Create, Delete, Replicate) on /etc/packages/mobileapp
- (Read) on /var/contentsync
Note:
Package replication is used to publish app updates from author instance to publish instance
Caution:
/var/contentsync access is denied OOTB.
Omitting the READ permission can result in empty update packages being built and replicated.
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