Migrating from Legacy Editor to Client Seats (+ issue list & suggestions)

Firstly, excited to see that Client Seats are finally here :partying_face:, which means we can start migrating Legacy Client accounts to either the Content Editor or Marketer roles. Good news.

I also appreciate that this has just been released, so there will be some gremlins to resolve in the short term. :cockroach:

In a nutshell, I’ve started playing with Client Seats and have found a few potential issues/concerns, which I’ll list below.

For context, we’re on an agency workspace plan.

Issues:

  • A Content Editor can currently access and edit project settings (equivalent permissions to the Marketer role). I assume this is a bug.

  • Marketer roles have too much access/visibility of site settings and information, such as Shared Workspace templates, Subdomain Indexing & Publishing, Webflow Cloud, Clone of, Folder ID, etc.

  • Marketers can rename components, not ideal.

  • Marketers can create new collections. Is that intentional?

Requests:

  • Give the Marketer role access to 301 redirects.
    Would make working with SEO agencies a lot easier.

  • Give Content Editors the ability to edit component properties.
    Such as selecting collection items in a collection listing component

  • Option to lock down SEO and Schema settings on collection templates and static pages.
    Sometimes, clients don’t understand dynamic content tags and manually overwrite them.

  • Ability for Content Editors & Marketers to pin open the left-hand page nav menu, for easier page navigation.

  • For collection list content on static pages that can’t be directly edited on the page by a Content Editor, add a hover hint to advise that the content needs to be edited via the CMS screen.

  • Content Editors can currently import/export collection item content; make this an optional permission.

  • The ability to hide certain components from Marketer roles.

Link to this post on the new Webflow community forums :backhand_index_pointing_down:

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Completely agree with this @alexdixon.

Also when we add a client without client payments, they should not have access to plans either in my opinion.

Hoping this will be sorted out as we are excited to onboard clients on their new client seats​:folded_hands:

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Great discussion here! We’ve moved to a new Community homebase, which i know some of you are already a part of. @alexdixon has a good conversation about legacy Editor and clients seats here if you want to join: Migrating from Legacy Editor to Client Seats (+ issue list & suggestions)