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How Content Lock Works

Content Lock can provide content managementprovides the Administrator and/or Content Administrator roles with content control:

• on a single site : with its roles-based permission systemacross multiple sites: with its roles-based system - 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, for source site control).     

Role-based permissions

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

• This The Content Administrator role can control:
• 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 Admin Administrator role as superuser has all Content Admin permissions by default.

Enable Content Lock

CMS Admin and Content Admin roles can enable and disable content locking on a site after the feature has been switched on This must be enabled by Commerce Vision.  

To enable/disable locking:

1. In the CMS, go to Settings → Settings → Feature Management → Content → Content Lock.
   
   
2. Toggle ON/OFF Content Lock. 
   

Assign Roles

With Content Lock enabled, a CMS Administrator can assign the Content Administrator role to specific users who are to manage content locking. Other users will be able to view but not edit locked content. NOTE -  Non-admin users cannot view widget contents when the widget or template is locked. 

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