Last updated October 2, 2025
- Permissions
- Overview
This guide outlines role attributes and permissions.
Roles
Authoriser:
Enables the user to approve and/or reject content that has been flagged for review.
Media contributor:
Media contributors can publish stories and events within their subsite. They can also escalate stories or events from their subsite to be featured on another subsite.
Contributor:
Enables the user to load content to the SU platform. These users can publish their own content within the subsites for which they are responsible. They can escalate stories (news articles) and events from their subsite to be featured on another subsite or the main stories and events pages. They can also approve (or deny) story or event escalations from other subsites.
Site owner:
Contributors can be assigned as Site owners. Site owners are the main contributors for a site and can add/manage users on their subsite.
Permissions summary
Here is a summary of the permissions associated with each role. Remember that these permissions are subsite-specific.
A user can have access to more than one subsite, with a different role on each subsite. For example, a user can be the Site owner for an academic department, and a Media contributor on the faculty subsite. This will allow them to add content to their academic department's subsite and post Stories and Events on the faculty subsite.
| Authoriser | Contributor | Media contributor | Site owner | |
| Review content | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create and publish webpages | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Create and publish Stories and Events | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Escalate Stories or Events | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Approve escalations | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Create webforms | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Create new sites | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Create/ edit menus | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | ✓ |
| Approve Role requests | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |