Understanding permissions for pages

You can set permissions on a page. By default, if no permissions are set, the page can be viewed by everyone, but only the owner of the page and users belonging to the HOMEPAGES-ContentAdministrator or HOMEPAGES-Administrator group can edit the page. If a user can edit a page, the user can make changes to the page such as:

Adding and removing widgets
Changing the title, description, and page color
Configuring widgets

These are the permission options:


Permission	Description
No permissions set	Everyone can view the page, but only the owner, content administrators, and administrators can edit the page.
Can Edit	Permissions are added with Can Edit. Everyone can view the page, and the page can be edited only by the owner, content administrators, and administrators as well as groups and users who have been given the Can Edit permission. Groups and users who have been given the Can Edit permission must have the Publish pages to the Page Catalog permission activated.
View Only	Permissions are added with View Only. Only the users who are added can view the page. The page can be edited by the owner, administrators, and any extra group or user who has the Can Edit permission.
Disabled	Users, roles, and groups that are added as "disabled" cannot view or edit the page. The page is not available in the Page Catalog. If someone without view or edit rights already has the page in My Pages, the page is shown as broken. Note: The page owner, content administrators, and administrators can always find a published page in the page catalog and are always allowed to edit the page, even when it is disabled.

Note: The Publish pages to the Page Catalog setting must be active for users to be able to edit published pages. The default setting is true for content administrators and administrators.

Note: The rule that gives the highest level of permissions to a user is the rule that is recognized. For example, if a page is disabled for everyone but Can Edit rights are assigned to a user or a group of which the user is a member, that user or group has edit rights. If the rule for everyone is set to Configure, everyone can edit the page. Even if you set an additional disable rule, that rule is not enforced.