Configuring design permissions

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The Design permission matrix is used to set up important permissions related to the design of page templates and their components.

To access the matrix in the Permissions application:

  1. Choose Module in the first Permissions for drop-down list
  2. Choose Design in the second drop-down list.

The permission matrix for designing websites

You can assign the following permissions to members of the specified roles:

Wireframing

Allows users to edit the content of wireframe schematics in the Pages application on the Wireframe tab and create new wireframe documents. Users without this permission can view wireframes, but are not allowed to make any modifications.

Design web site

Allows users to edit documents on the Design tab of the Pages application. Note that even though the changes on the Design tab are made on a specific website, this may also affect other sites in the system if they use the same shared page template.

This permission also determines whether the given role is allowed to configure the properties of web parts through the On-site editing interface.

Edit ASCX code

Allows users to modify the ASCX code of page layouts and transformations. This permission does not affect the ability to edit the HTML versions of these objects.

This should be considered a high‑level permission, because it gives users the option to add and execute inline code.

Edit SQL code

Allows users to create or modify query objects and edit other fields containing SQL code, such as the WHERE condition properties of web parts.

This should be considered a high‑level permission, because it gives users the power to write and execute SQL queries against the website’s database.

Destroy transformations

Allows users to delete the version history of transformation objects.

Destroy CSS stylesheets

Allows users to delete the version history of CSS stylesheet objects.

Destroy page layouts

Allows users to delete the version history of shared page layouts.

Destroy page templates

Allows users to delete the version history of page templates.

Destroy web part containers

Allows users to delete the version history of web part containers.

Destroy web part layouts

Allows users to delete the version history of web part layouts.

For security reasons, the Edit ASCX code and Edit SQL code permissions may only be assigned by users with the Global administrator privilege level.