Problem

You want to control which weblogs an author can access and what they have permission to do.

Solution

Click the Authors System Shortcut on the Main Menu and then click on the username that you want to edit. Select the weblog and weblog features you want to enable/disable based on the user's role.

Discussion

Movable Type uses a role-based system to grant access to authors, allowing them to perform actions related to a specific weblog or to the system overall.

For instance, you might have one user who is helping to design a weblog. You could assign this user full permissions to modify the weblog within the Weblog Administrator role -- edit templates, assign authors, edit categories, and so on. Another user may only be acting as contributor. For this user you could designate them as an author and assign permissions only to post and edit their own work.

To edit the permissions of an existing author, click Authors in the System Shortcuts, find the author you wish to edit and click on their username. With the screen that follows you can assign permissions to any weblog for which you have author-editing permissions.

Based on a user's permissions their navigational choices and toolbars will change to reflect what they can do.