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How Content Lock Works

Content Lock provides the Administrator and/or Content Administrator roles with content control:

• on a single site - lock/unlock specific content from other roles 
• on multiple sites - lock/unlock specific content of target sites remotely from a source site (when used with Deploy Content).     

Role-based permissions

Content Administrator role: When Content Lock is enabled on your site, this role becomes availlable.

• The Content Administrator role can:
• on a single or source site: lock and unlock data types and items
• on a single or source site: add, edit and delete locked objects
• on a target site: control what locked content is deployed to networked target sites (if Deploy Content is used with Lock Content)  
• on a target site: unlock deployed content for editing (if Deploy Content is used with Lock Content) 

NOTE - The CMS Administrator role as superuser has all Content Admin permissions by default.

Enable Content Lock

The Content Lock feature must be enabled on each site by Commerce Vision. NOTE - If Content Lock and Deploy Content are enabled on a source site but NOT on a target site, locked content will be deployed as unlocked content. It can be edited on the target site.      

When Content Lock is enabled on a site, the feature does not display the 'Contact to Enable' button ().

Assign Roles

& Permissions

Assign Content Administrator role - With Content Lock enabled, a the CMS Administrator can assign the Content Administrator role to specific users who are to manage content locking . Other users will be able on the single or source site.

View Content Deployment permission - Commerce Vision can enable permission to view but not edit locked deployed content for any role on a target site. NOTE -  Non-admin users cannot view widget contents when the widget or template is locked. 

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