# Gossamer Links Help

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Editors Help

Editors are a powerful new feature of Gossamer Links. They allow you to off load the maintenance of your directory to other users without having to give them access to your admin. With Editors, you can give users the ability to add, modify, delete, validate links as well alter the category structure.

To use editors, you need to make sure your template set you are using contains the browser_* templates. These templates control the look and feel of the editor system. You can tweak these to make it fit into your site, however be careful not to alter the JavaScript unless you know what you are doing.

To assign an editor control over a category, simply click on Browse, pick the category you want, and click on Editors. Then type in the username (must be a valid user that already exists) and select what permissions the editor has over the category. Hit submit, and you are done.

Now, that user can log in from the user.cgi script. Once logged in, you can present them with a link to admin.cgi, and they will be presented with the same browse window you see from the admin, however it will be rooted at the category you selected. They will not be able to access any part of the category tree outside of their own category.

From there, the editor can add, modify, delete links, validate new links, etc. It all works exactly the same as how the admin system works.

Also included is a tag for displaying editors. If you add:

<%Links::Utils::load_editors%>
<%if editors%>
The following users maintain this category: <%editors%>
<%endif%>

To your category.html template, then you will be able to see a list of editors available in the selected category.

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