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As a media owner, you can add collaborators such as co-editors, co-publishers, and co-viewers to their media. This will make the media available in the collaborators' personal My Media.
Note that adding a collaborator doesn’t change that user's overall role, in other words, a user with a viewer role added as a co-editor or co-publisher can only edit or publish the specific media they’ve been assigned to.
Your administrator can also configure the option of adding co-editors, co-publishers, or co-viewers during upload of an entry.
For information about transferring ownership, check out our article Change media ownership.
The Mediacollaboration module must be enabled by your administrator for this functionality to work.
The instructions below are for Theming users. If you don't have Theming enabled, please refer to our article Change media ownership & add collaborators.
Add collaborators
- Access the My Media page.
- Check the box(es) on the top left of the desired entries.
- Click the More actions menu at the top of the page and choose Add/Remove collaborators.
- Choose Add collaborators.
- Select the permissions you want your collaborator to have:
This option only appears in the menu if the mediaCollaboration module is enabled.
The Add collaboration window displays.
- Viewer
- Publisher
- Editor
- Start typing a name in the text field. A drop-down list will automatically show the users and groups available. Check the boxes next to each name to select them.
- When you've finished adding collaborators and setting permissions, click Add.
A success message displays: Media successfully updated.
Remove collaborators
- On the My Media page, check the box(es) on the top left of the desired entries.
- Click the More actions menu at the top of the page and choose Add/Remove collaborators.
- Choose Remove collaborators from the menu.
- Select the permissions you want your collaborator to have:
This option only appears in the menu if the mediaCollaboration module is enabled.
The Remove collaboration window displays.
- Viewer / Webcast moderator
- Publisher
- Editor
- Start typing a name in the text field. A drop-down list will automatically show the users and groups available. Check the boxes next to each name to select them.
- When you've finished adding collaborators and setting permissions, click Update.
A success message displays:Media successfully updated.
