Pressbooks - Adding other users to your Pressbook (UW-Madison)

This document provides information on how to give other users authoring access to a Pressbook you administer.

Pressbooks offers the ability to give other people access to a book you administer, such as editors and co-authors. These instructions assume that the person you are adding to your Pressbook has already requested a Pressbooks account and has been added to Pressbooks as outlined in Pressbooks - Overview (UW-Madison) . To add another person to your book:

1. Log in to Pressbooks: wisc.pb.unizin.org
2. Click My Catalog and select the book that you want to add another person to.
3. Click Users in the left navigation menu:
   
   
4. Click Add New.
5. Enter the user's UW-Madison email in the Email entry field.
   
6. Select the role you want the user to have in your Pressbooks from the Role drop-down menu. The following table lists each user role, and what they have access to once they've been added to a book, listed from most to least access:
   

   Role	Manage Users & Settings	Add or Edit Posts	Publish Posts	Delete Posts	Read Posts	Comment (if enabled)
   Administrator	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
   Editor	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
   Author	No	Only their own	Only their own	Only their own	Yes	Yes
   Contributor	No	Only their own	No	No	Yes	Yes
   Subscriber	No	No	No	No	Yes	Yes

   
   
7. Click Add Existing User.