Help - Users and maintainers

In contrast to ordinary users (casual visitors to the published pages), maintainers have a user name and password to logon to Drupal and gain access to the Maintainer facilities and documentation, and are noted as the author of anything they create. As the author can be changed it is really the term for the (current) maintainer of that content. GENUKI maintainers can create nodes but only update the ones for which they are recorded as the author. We also have another role for some people, of 'GENUKI administrator', with more privileges such as the ability to edit nodes for which they are not noted as the author.

Each maintainer has a user account (or "profile"), reachable via the link "My Account" in the top right hand corner of each page. The Edit tab on the user account page allows maintainers to perform such tasks as: Change their password, Set the default for their editing (i.e. whether or not WYSIWYG is initially enabled when they open an edit page), Specify a signature to be used at the foot of each of their pages, and the details of their contact form, etc.

As the new Drupal-based system is in effect a flat structure (for which we are providing a hierarchical facade, using paths) we could move away from the current situation in GENUKI where a single person has to do everything for a given county. We could have people maintaining just a single parish, for instance, something that is now much simpler as all they have to do is work on the information content, not the layout. We could give them a role that just allows them to edit their own nodes, and not create any new ones.