Permissions for Giovanna

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James, We need to make sure before the project ends, that I have access to the entire website features and know how to use them if I don't already.

On an immediate basis, I would like to be able to edit/modify the "People" Dashboard and the Find Content Admin Dashboards. I need to be able to more easily find individual users by their names or usernames and change their roles or permissions, etc, particularly since we've decided to do a soft roll-out where we will be selecting a few users forst to help with the content categorization, and later to evaluate the website features, and finally to help test the capacity of the website... 

Also (sorry that I am putting a second question but it's not quite an issue), why did you only block the maintainer and site administrator account initially, and not all of the general user accounts? Shouldn't we block all? We 

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I will recheck your

I will recheck your permissions.  To locate particular users, I use the "Buscar usuarios" link.  Each picture in the table leads to the user's page allowing you to make administration changes to the account.  I don't know if you have seen the link, but there is a "manage content" link that utilizes something called bulk operations.  It's super powerful (and very very dangerous), but it allows you to mass select content and modify it.  For example, I used it to remove all the calendar items that defaulted to the front page.  There were over 400, and I just selected them all in the manage content page and with one click removed them all from the front page.  User operations can also be exposed to bulk operations.  It's really easy to delete everything from the site, though, so I don't know how much power you want to wield.  With great power comes great responsibility :-).

As for the active normal users.  I didn't actually mean to block anybody, but there was a setting when I was importing the users and I screwed it up and started notifying the former admins about their accounts.  When we went live, I was going to reset all the accounts to "inactive" and then reactivate them causing the notification email to be sent out with the link for password change and information update.  It doesn't really matter at this point, because nobody knows their account is "active" anyway.  They didn't get any notifications or anything, so the site is still effectively hidden except for a few of the admin users from the old site.