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  • Even though this security is for External Users, you will need to create a Security: CAS component.

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Click New Component (blue) to begin creating a Security: CAS component.

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In the Building Blocks folder of your respective website, click New Component (highlighted in blue above) in the Create tab (highlighted in yellow above) of the navigation bar.

You will be taken to a new page for creating the component (shown below):

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Creating a Security: CAS component.

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  1. Enter an appropriate Name for your component.

  2. Choose Security: CAS from the Schema drop down menu(highlighted in yellow above).

  3. Allow the following groups access: This field allows you to select the type of security and enter the information for who gets access.

    • Select the radio button next to External Role (highlighted in orange above) to use the External Security Group you created in the last section.

  4. In the Values field, enter the Name of the External Security Group.

    • The easiest way to do this is by copying and pasting from the Name field of the security group you created in https://profile.yale.edu/

    • You can add, delete, or sort Values with the icons to the left of the field (highlighted in red above).

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If you will be using multiple Security Types within this single Security component (for example, NetID and External User Security) it is crucial to use the furthest left green + icon (highlighted in green above) in the Allow the following groups access field to make an additional field for your other values.

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Once you've finished inserting your Security Types and coordinating Values, click Save and Close (highlighted in blue above) in the Home tab, and the component is ready to be inserted onto a page in your Root folder

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Once you’ve created a Security component, you are ready to apply that Security to a structure group.

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Creating a Security page.

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  1. Within the Structure Group you would like to secure, create a New Page, and start with the General tab.

  2. The Name of this new page should be "Security."

  3. The File Name must be "security" (lowercase, no spaces).

  4. Below Page Template, uncheck the box next to Inherit from Parent (highlighted in yellow above).

  5. Select XML from the Page Template dropdown (highlighted in blue above).

  6. Click on the Component Presentations tab of your page (highlighted in green above).

  7. In the Component Presentations tab of your page, click Insert.

  8. Your Building Blocks folder will pop up, select the security component you just created.

  9. Select Security: CAS in the Component Template drop down menu.

  10. Click Insert to add the component to the page.

  11. Click Save and Close, then publish the page.