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Site Factory
Managing site ownership
Managing site ownership
Each Site Factory website has an authenticated user account
listed as its site owner. By default, the site owner account created the
website. A website’s site owner account (whose features are independent of the
roles available in
Site Factory) can perform several
website actions, including deleting the website.
Site owners can also view all websites they own on the All my sites page in
the Site Factory Management Console, even if the
site owner isn’t a member of the group the websites belong to.
For information about identifying the site owner account for a single website,
see Website metadata.
Important
Manually creating users on your non-production environment can lead to user
ID mismatches causing website staging processes to fail if the user is the
site owner. For more information, see
Repairing user ID mismatches when staging a Factory.
Transferring site ownership
To change the site owner account for a single website:
In the administrative menu, click Sites. Find the website for which you
want to transfer ownership, and then open its actions menu.
Transferring site ownership
Click Transfer Site Ownership.
In the Username or e-mail field, enter the username or email address for
the Site Factory account to which you want to transfer site ownership.
Click Transfer site.
Site Factory sends confirmation emails to the existing and new
site owners. After each person confirms the change, the website is associated
with the new owner account.
Restricting website ownership
Website creators are made the site owners by default, which may give them
greater authority than you may want. To prevent this problem, you can configure
Site Factory to have websites created by users not in the
platform admin role
to instead have a specified platform admin user be their site owner.
To restrict website ownership of newly created websites to a platform admin:
Scroll to the Site Factory management section, and click
Site ownership settings.
In the Site owner account field, enter the Site Factory user name (email
address) for a user with the platform admin role:
Click Save.
Newly-created websites created by any user who doesn’t have the
platform admin role will have the user you specified in the
Site owner account field designated as the site owner. The site creator
won’t have any role with the new website by default. If they have the
platform admin or site builder role, you can assign roles for the website
using the Centralized role management feature.
To disable centralized role management, clear the Site owner account field,
and then click Save. If the Site owner account field doesn’t list a
user, any user who creates a website will be its site owner.
Permissions Note
The site transfer process doesn’t assign or remove roles from either the
previous or the new website owner accounts. The process only changes the
website’s owner to a different account.
If you want to associate the new site owner account with an administrative
role (such as Administrator or Site maintainer), you must sign in to the
website as an administrative account and then manually assign the required
roles to the new site owner’s account.
Managing site ownership
Each Site Factory website has an authenticated user account
listed as its site owner. By default, the site owner account created the
website. A website’s site owner account (whose features are independent of the
roles available in
Site Factory) can perform several
website actions, including deleting the website.
Site owners can also view all websites they own on the All my sites page in
the Site Factory Management Console, even if the
site owner isn’t a member of the group the websites belong to.
For information about identifying the site owner account for a single website,
see Website metadata.
Important
Manually creating users on your non-production environment can lead to user
ID mismatches causing website staging processes to fail if the user is the
site owner. For more information, see
Repairing user ID mismatches when staging a Factory.
Transferring site ownership
To change the site owner account for a single website:
In the administrative menu, click Sites. Find the website for which you
want to transfer ownership, and then open its actions menu.
Transferring site ownership
Click Transfer Site Ownership.
In the Username or e-mail field, enter the username or email address for
the Site Factory account to which you want to transfer site ownership.
Click Transfer site.
Site Factory sends confirmation emails to the existing and new
site owners. After each person confirms the change, the website is associated
with the new owner account.
Restricting website ownership
Website creators are made the site owners by default, which may give them
greater authority than you may want. To prevent this problem, you can configure
Site Factory to have websites created by users not in the
platform admin role
to instead have a specified platform admin user be their site owner.
To restrict website ownership of newly created websites to a platform admin:
Scroll to the Site Factory management section, and click
Site ownership settings.
In the Site owner account field, enter the Site Factory user name (email
address) for a user with the platform admin role:
Click Save.
Newly-created websites created by any user who doesn’t have the
platform admin role will have the user you specified in the
Site owner account field designated as the site owner. The site creator
won’t have any role with the new website by default. If they have the
platform admin or site builder role, you can assign roles for the website
using the Centralized role management feature.
To disable centralized role management, clear the Site owner account field,
and then click Save. If the Site owner account field doesn’t list a
user, any user who creates a website will be its site owner.
Permissions Note
The site transfer process doesn’t assign or remove roles from either the
previous or the new website owner accounts. The process only changes the
website’s owner to a different account.
If you want to associate the new site owner account with an administrative
role (such as Administrator or Site maintainer), you must sign in to the
website as an administrative account and then manually assign the required
roles to the new site owner’s account.
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