Some doubts related to the backend users in Typo3 6.1.1

Question

I am pretty new in Typo3 (I came from Joomla and WordPress) and reading the documentation I have some doubts related to the user manage the user in this CMS:

I am using Typo3 6.1.1 and reading here it seems to me that the user managment is quite different (maybe the documentation is related to an old version of the CMS?): http://docs.typo3.org/typo3cms/GettingStartedTutorial/EditAndCreatePagesAndContent/CreateUsersGroups/Index.html

In particular I am not understanding if in the 6.1.1 the backend user can ben divided in groups or if they simply are backend user because if I go into: ADMIN TOOLS ---> Backend User I can see the backend user but not the groups, why?

Tnx

Andrea

Answer 1

As you can see in mentioned doc, BE users can be divided by groups and easiest way for creating BE groups and next BE users is using WEB > List module.

Just using workflow showed at screen of this section you need to create records of both types (blue arrows) on the highest page (with id 0 - on screenshot it's called New TYPO3 site)

I'm not quite sure about the reason, but Backend User module doesn't allow to manage BE groups directly, however there's a tip (which is general for whole TYPO3) - you can create a BE group ad hoc - during the process of creating BE user by using additional icons in the form, take a look to screenshot below, the yellow pencil and black plus allows you to edit/create related records without canceling current edition.