User Management
Disclaimer: This feature has not officially been released yet. Both the feature itself and the documentation are not finalized yet.
Summary
The Users page of the Purple Control Center lists the people who work with your teams and lets admins create new users. You can create a user, and decide in a single step what they may do in the Control Center and which Purple Hubs they can sign in to (including the role they start with in each hub). New users receive an email with everything they need to sign in.
Open it at controlcenter.purplepublish.com/users or via the Accounts card on the Control Center start page.
- Users overviewUsers overview: find users, see their access and when they last signed in
- Create a new userCreate a new user: step-by-step guide
Who can use it
- Team Admins see the users of their teams and can create new users in their teams.
- Purple Super Admins and Purple Admins (Purple staff) see all users and can create users in every team, as well as other Purple staff accounts.
Roles
Every user has one access level per team.
Role | Control Center | Purple Hub |
|---|---|---|
Team Admin | Whole team, creates users | All hubs of the team |
App Admin | Selected projects and publications | Hubs of those projects |
Editor | Selected publications | No access |
Hub Editor | No access | Selected hubs |
Editors cannot sign in to a Purple Hub. If someone edits publications and also works in a Purple Hub, create them as App Admin (Build Projects & Edit Publications), or as Hub Editor if they only work in the hub.
"All" includes what is added later
When you select All projects or All publications for a user, they also get access to projects and publications that the team adds later. When you select individual items, new items have to be granted separately. The same applies to Hub Editors and All Purple Hubs.
Roles in the Purple Hub
Each Purple Hub has its own roles, for example Purple Editor, Purple Managing Editor and Administrator, and sometimes additional roles set up for that hub. See Purple Hub: Overview of roles & rightsPurple Hub: Overview of roles & rights.
When you create a Team Admin, App Admin or Hub Editor, you choose the role the user starts with in each of their Purple Hubs. The hub applies it when the user signs in to it for the first time. After that, the Purple Hub manages the role: change it in the hub as described in Purple Hub: Change the role of a userPurple Hub: Change the role of a user. The Control Center does not show or change hub roles of existing users.
In the following cases, the user starts as Purple Editor in a Purple Hub:
- No role was chosen for the hub, because you kept the preselected role or the hub was added to the team later.
- The chosen role was removed from the hub before the user's first sign-in.