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Manage composition component permissions

You are able to assign permissions on composition components in order to control which users are able to create certain kinds of compositions.

Use case

If you are building a site with sensitive pages, such as those with legal information, you might want to restrict the ability to create these kinds of pages to certain users.

  1. In Canvas, open a component that is marked as a composition component.

  2. Navigate to the tab Permissions

  3. Turn off the option Use team permissions

    About this step

    When this option is enabled, any user with permission Compositions Create can create compositions using the composition component. Disabling this option allows you to override this setting to prevent users from being able to use this composition component.

  4. Click the red (+) button.

  5. Select the role you want the permissions to be applied to.

  6. Select the permissions you want to be applied:

    PermissionDescription
    ReadView compositions created using the component.
    WriteMake changes to and publish compositions created using the component.
    DeleteDelete compositions created using the component.
  7. Click OK

  8. Click Save to save the changes to the component.