Collections such as blogs, property or object lists, product catalogues or job advertisements, you can give your customers access to them so that they can make changes themselves.
How to give your customer access
To give your customers access to collections, proceed as follows:
- Open the Website Builder
- Choose a Collection entry container
- Click on the three-dot menu and hover with the mouse over ‘Editable for the customer’
- Now select ‘All items of this type’.
- Your customer can now add their own Collection items in various statuses via the customer portal.
If you want to give a customer full access to the CMS, click on ‘Website’ in the top menu bar. A panel will open on the right-hand side where you can activate ‘Full access for customers’ via a checkbox.
Please note that with full access, your customer can access all functions of the CMS, edit the entire website and change all settings.
Edit rights for your customer
Once you made Collections editable for your customers, they can open a simplified version of the CMS in their customer portal (or the full access version, if you enabled full access) under "Edit website".
When they access the website, they will see the "Collections Manager" tab in the top right corner.
When they click on "Collections Manager" they will see all Collections of the website.
Let's say you created a blog for your customer (but the same applies to other Collection types) then they will be able to:
- edit existing blog posts with all features that the CMS has to offer
- duplicate existing blog posts and edit them as they like, which makes it easy to create new blog posts while ensuring the design is exactly the same
The look and functionality of the Collections are the same as your access, so we recommend making a short tutorial for your customers.
Please note, that your customers cannot create Collections themselves if they don't have full access. Therefore, you will need to add at least one Collection with a structure and dummy content.
