Configure Your Users and User Groups

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Experience Manager 6.3 Mobile User Guide
Applies to: Experience Manager 6.3 Mobile

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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.

AEM Mobile Application Users and Group Administration

AEM Mobile Application Content Authors (app-author group)

Members of the app-author group are responsible for authoring AEM mobile application content including, pages, text, images and videos.

Group configuration - app-authors

  1. 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.

  2. Add member to group: Authors

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    Add app-authors to the Authors group

  3. 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.

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    Edit user groups

  4. The following allows you to add to AEM's Content Authors Group:

    (Read) on

    • /app
    • /etc/clientlibs
    • /etc/designs
    • /etc/cloudservices/dps2015

AEM Mobile Application Administrators Group (app-admins group)

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.

Group configuration - app-admins

  1. Create a new group called app-admins.

  2. Add the following groups to your new app-admins group:

    • content-authors
    • workflow-users
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    Note:

    workflow-users are required to remote build with PhoneGap Build service

  3. Navigate to the Permissions console and add permissions to administer cloudservices

    • (Read, Modify, Create, Delete, Replicate) on /etc/cloudservices/mobileservices

  4. 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.

  5. Add members to this group as needed

  6. To Export Content or Upload

    • (Read) on /etc/contentsync to to access export templates
    • (Read) on /var to for path traversal on reads
    • (Read, Write, Modify, Delete) on /var/contentsync to write, read, and cleanup ContentSync cached export content 

Additional Resources

To understand more on the other two roles and responsibilities for creating an AEM Mobile On-Demand Services App, see the following resources: