Drupal Gardens service providers

1. Service provider becomes registered Drupal Gardens user - If not already a registered Drupal Gardens user, your service provider should sign up at http://www.drupalgardens.com/user/register.
2. Service provider applies for site membership - Your service provider should click the "login or register" link on your Drupal Gardens site and enter her Drupal Gardens username and password. If not already a member of your site, her membership will be placed in your site's approval queue. On the user page at People > List, your service provider appears as "blocked".

   

3. Approve, grant administrative access
   1. Click the "edit" link to edit the service provider's user profile.
   2. Approve service provider's membership - Change her status from "blocked" to active.
   3. Make service provider a site administrator - Select "Administrator" role checkbox.
   4. Click "Save" at the bottom of the page.

   

4. Service provider receives confirmation e-mail and is now a site-administrator.

Option 1: Site maintainer creates site

Site maintainer:

1. Register or login to http://www.drupalgardens.com
2. Click "Get started" (from the front page) or "Create a new site" (from the My sites page)
3. Enter a site name, select a site template and features, create your new site.
4. Follow the instructions above under "Grant administrator access to an existing site" to give your service provider administrative access to your site.

Option 2: Service provider creates site

Step 1: Service provider:

1. Register a user account for the site maintainer.
2. Login to http://www.drupalgardens.com as the site maintainer.
3. Click "Get started" (from the front page) or "Create a new site" (from the My sites page)
4. Enter a site name, select a site template and features, create the new site.
5. Log out.
6. Login as yourself (service provider).
7. Apply for site membership as outlined under "Grant administrator access to an existing site" above.
8. Log out.
9. Login as the site maintainer.
10. Approve your site membership and give yourself administrative access as outlined under "Grant administrator access to an existing site" above.

Step 2: Site maintainer

1. Login to http://www.drupalgardens.com
2. Go to your user profile page - Click the "Hello [your name]" link at the top right of the page or enter the URL "http://www.drupalgardens.com" directly into your browser.
3. Click the "edit" tab under your username.
4. Enter a new password into the "Password" and "Confirm password" fields.
5. Click "Save" at the bottom of the page.
6. Your service provider can no longer login to Drupal Gardens or your Drupal Gardens site using your login credentials.

Choose one of the following options:

• Remove your service provider's administrative access to your site - Remove the Administrator role from her profile and click "Save" at the bottom of her profile page.
• Remove your service provider from all but anonymous (non-registered, non-logged-in) access to your site - Change your service provider's status from active to blocked and click "Save" at the bottom of her profile page.

Here's how you could let someone work on the look and feel of your site without giving them access to any other part of the administrative back-end or permission to create or change content on your site.

1. Create a new user role called "Designer"
   1. Enter "Designer" on the Roles page at People > Permissions > Roles.
   2. Click "Add role".

   

2. Edit the Designer role's permissions
   1. Click its "edit permissions" link on the Roles page (or go to People > Permissions > Permissions).

   

3. Add the "Administer themes" permission to the Designer role
   1. Select the "administer themes" checkbox
   2. Click "Save permissions" at the bottom of the page.

   

4. Give the Designer role to selected users
   1. Find the user(s) in question (they have to have registered as a user on Drupal Gardens and your site already) at People > List.
   2. Click "edit" under Operations.
   3. Select the "Designer" checkbox under Roles.
   4. Click "Save".