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  • Mapping custom roles to Persona bar permissions

    Overview When you create a custom role, it will have very limited default access to Persona Bar items such as Settings and Assets. If you want to give your custom role access to more of the Persona Ba...

  • Set up Page Permissions

    Overview Permissions in DNN come in two types Page permissions, which cover adding, deleting, and managing of individual pages. Global permissions, which cover access to DNN installation-wide settings...

  • Disabling access to another User's Profile

    Overview To ensure data security of the User Profile feature; site administrators may want to restrict users' ability to view other users' profiles.   Requirements Access to Superuser/Host access   So...

  • Searching for Users in DNN

    Overview When a DNN administrator wants to look for a user in their environment, they will be able to search for users through the DNN Persona Bar.   Prerequisites  Access to a Superuser account   Sol...

  • Changing Group Owner

    Overview When creating a group, you will need to define a group owner. This article will detail how to change the group owner from the initial owner.   Solution When a group is created, there is a Rol...

  • Configuring and Copying Page Permissions

    Overview Site admins can define permissions for pages in different ways and can also copy them to descendant pages to save time. This article shares the process for site admins to: Configure page perm...

  • Hiding a Persona Bar Menu Item for a Specific Role

    Overview At times, you may want to hide a Persona Bar menu item from a specific role to prevent users in that role from accessing the menu features. Note that permissions must be defined for a role be...

  • Impersonating a DNN user

    Overview Whenever you would like to login or impersonate a DNN user to test a user-specific issue such as permissions, you can access the account through a DNN setting.   Prerequisites Access to a Sup...

  • Bulk copying page permissions using Import/Export

    Overview The Import/Export tool can be used to copy page permissions from one site to another after a migration or upgrade. Though the tool is normally used to copy whole sites from a test to a live e...

  • Prevent users from editing their own profile fields

    Overview DNN allows you to specify which parts of a registered user's profile can be edited by the user. You can specify, for example, that the user can modify their picture, but not their first or la...