Pootle permissions

This page explains how to administrate permissions on your Pootle server. There are several rights which can be assigned to users or to a group of users (like all logged in users). The default site wide permissions are configured by the server administrator. This are the permissions that will be used in each project unless other permissions are configured.

Permissions can be customised per language/project combination, by either editing the default rights for that project, or by assigning specific rights to individual users.

The following permissions may be set for the server or per language project combination:

• view - this doesn't really do anything. In future we might implement it properly to limit the visibility of certain projects.
• suggest - the right to suggest a translation for a specific unit
• review - the right to review the suggested translations and accept or reject them
• translate - the right to supply a translation for a specific unit or to replace the existing one (this includes accepting and rejecting suggestions)
• archive - the right to download archives (like ZIP files) of a project or directory
• overwrite - the right to entirely overwrite a file at the time of upload (instead of the default behaviour of merging translations)
• administrate - the right to administrate the permissions of this project (this is not the same as the site administrator)
• commit - the right to commit a file to the version control system (if the files are configured for version control integration)
• assign - the right to assign work in goals to translators (not available in Pootle 2.0)

Users with administrative rights for languages or translation projects can access the permissions interface by clicking on the “Permissions” tab on the language or translation project index pages.

Pootle administrators will find the default permissions interface on the administration page, right under the “Permissions” tab.

The current rights are listed as they are assigned. The user “nobody” refers to any user that is not logged in (an anonymous, unidentified user). The user “default” refers to the rights that all logged in users will have by default, unless other specific rights were assigned to them. The rest of the users are users of the Pootle server for which non-default rights were assigned.

In the list of permissions, you can simply select which rights must be assigned to that user or class of users. You might need to hold down the Ctrl key of you keyboard to select multiple rights. Changes will be updated when you submit the form.

To set permissions for a specific user, select the user in the dropdown list and set the specific rights for that user. This is only necessary if the user does not yet have their own set of rights defined.

Note, however, that users need to select the language and project in their options before you can administrate them.

You can administrate him even if he did not select the language and project in his options, if you know what his exact username is. Simply view the source of your browser's cached copy of the admin.html page, and edit it to add that user to the dropdown list. Then reload the page from the cache. You will then be able to select the user from the dropdown list and administrate him.

To reset a user's rights to the default rights, select the tick box next to their name and permissions list. When you submit, their rights will be reset to the default rights.