Customize Permissions for Guides or Landing Pages

Summary

Learn how to manage access levels and visibility for your Guides and Landing Pages. Permissions in Guides are hierarchical, allowing you to set granular access for specific users, teams, or external audiences. 

How?

Explanation of Permissions in Chapters and Pages 

Permissions in Bynder Guides are structured hierarchically:

  1. Guides set the top-level baseline permissions.

  2. Chapters inherit permissions from the guide they belong to.

  3. Pages inherit permissions from their respective chapters.

You can manage access at a granular level for specific users, user groups, or permission profiles. 

  • Editing restrictions: Limit editing rights to certain users while allowing others to view the content only.
  • Team-specific pages: Make some content accessible only to designated teams. 
  • Selective page visibility: Hide certain pages in public guides from external viewers.

Set Access Levels in Guides and Landing Pages

Restricted Guides or Landing Pages

  • Look for  on the Guide overview or top bar to identify restricted guides.

  • Only the Creator and users with Manager permission can view or edit restricted guides and landing pages by default.
  • Certain plans allow sharing with individual users, groups, or permission profiles beyond the guide owner.

All Users

  • Guides and Landing Pages with this setting are available to all users with access to this content.
  • Permissions for editing or viewing are determined by the user's permission profile.
  • Look for to confirm that a guide is accessible to all users.

Note:

Assigning specific Creator or Viewer permissions within a guide overrides general profile permissions. For instance, a user with only viewer access in their profile can edit a guide if assigned Creator permission for that specific guide.

Public Guides

  • Public guides can be viewed by anyone with the link, including external users without portal access.
  • Look this on the Guide overview or top bar to identify public guides.

Note:
Assigning View or Edit permissions in the Guide Access screen overrides general user permissions. For example, granting Editor permission to users without guide access allows them to view and edit that guide.

FAQ

Can we use IP addresses to geoblock access to specific Guide or Landing Page URLs? 
No. We do not support IP-based or geo-based access restrictions for Guides or Landing Pages. Access to Guides and Landing Pages is controlled only through the permission levels described above: sharing with specific users, groups, or permission profiles; sharing with all DAM users; or making the page fully public.

Note that password-protected sharing does not provide equivalent protection against location-based sharing. Once a viewer enters the password, they land on the actual destination URL. That link can then be forwarded or reused by others without restriction.

If you need to restrict a public Guide or Landing Page link by geography or IP, you must handle that outside Bynder. For example, you can place a firewall, CDN, or reverse proxy in front of the public link.

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