By default, guide access is restricted, which means it's only visible to the guide owner and users with the Manager's permission. This allows Brand Guidelines creators to create and manage a guide's content before making it available to other users.
You can control who the guide is visible to by setting it to restricted and only making it available to specific users, user groups, and permission profiles. You can also share a guide with all Brand Guidelines users or make it publicly available so that even external users can access it.
Restricted guides can, by default, only be viewed and edited by the creator of that guide and other users with the Manager's permission. The Restricted option is only available if you’re on the Advance or Enterprise Package of Brand Guidelines, not if you’re on the Basic plan. You can recognize these guides on the guide overview page by the icon below the thumbnails. When you open a guide and see the icon in the top bar, you know it’s only visible to the guide owner.
A restricted guide can be shared with individual users, user groups, or permission profiles in addition to the guide owner. On the guide overview page, you can recognize these guides by the icon below the thumbnails. When you open a guide and see the icon in the top bar, you know it is visible to and/or editable by the specified permission profiles, user groups, or users.
Guides with this access type can be viewed by all users who have access to view Brand Guidelines. Users can edit or view the guide based on the Brand Guidelines permissions enabled for their permission profile.
You can recognize these guides on the guide overview page by the icon below the thumbnails. When you open a guide and see the
icon in the top bar, you know it is visible to all users who can view Brand Guidelines.
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The Viewer and Creator permissions in the Guide Access screen override the general profile permissions that users have set in Permission Management for that specific guide.
For example, suppose you assign the Creator permission over a specific guide to a user with Viewer Brand Guidelines permission. In that case, they can now view and edit that specific guide.
Guides with this access type can be viewed by anyone who has been given the link to the guide without the need to log in to the portal. This also includes external users who do not have an account in the portal. On the guide overview page, you can recognize these guides by the icon below the thumbnails. When you open a guide and see the icon in the top bar, you know it is a public guide. Read more about Public guides here.
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The View and Edit permissions in the Guide Access screen override the general permissions that users have in Permission Management for that specific guide. For example, if you assign the Editor permission to users who normally can't view guides, they'll now be able to view and edit that specific guide.
There are two ways to share a guide with other users. You can set the guide to Restricted, All users or public, or you can add specific users, user groups, and profile permissions and grant them Viewer or Editor permissions for that guide.
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Go to Brand Guidelines.
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Hover over the guide for which you want to change the guide access, click the
icon, and click Share.
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Open the dropdown at the top of the access screen and select one of the following options.
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Restricted
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All users
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Public
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Search for the user, user group, or permission profile with which you want to share the guide and click their name to add it.
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Open the dropdown next to a user, user group, or permission profile and grant them the Viewer or Editor permission.
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(Optional) Repeat steps 4-5 as often as necessary to share the guide with other users, user groups, and permission profiles.
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(Optional) Click the Copy link button to copy the direct URL to the guide. The URL will be copied to your clipboard, and you can share it with other Brand Guidelines users.
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Click Save changes
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The Viewer and Editor permissions in the Guide Access screen override users' permissions in Permission Management.
For example, if you assign the Editor permission to users who normally can't view guides, they'll now be able to view and edit that specific guide.
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Go to Brand Guidelines.
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Hover over the guide you want to hide, click the
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Open the dropdown at the top of the access screen and select the Restricted option.
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(If applicable) Open the dropdown next to a user, user group, and permission profile and click Remove to remove their access rights to the guide group.
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Click Save Changes to save the changes.
The owner and users can now only access the guide with the Manager's permission. The removed user, user groups, and permission profiles can no longer access the guide.
Public guides can be viewed by all users, including external users who do not have an account with the portal.
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Navigate to Brand Guidelines.
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Hover over the Brand Guidelines you want to make public, click the
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(Optional) Click the Copy link button to copy the URL. The URL will be copied to your clipboard, and you can share it with external users.
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Click Save Changes to save the changes.
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The guide is now publicly available and can also be shared with users who are not logged in or have no account.
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