University Website Office

MySource Matrix help

From Thursday 7 July 2011 you will only be able to access Matrix editing interfaces using the University Pheme authentication service. This means you will need to use your staff or student number as your user identification, and your Pheme password to authenticate your login.

User name change

More information on this change is available from the Website Office and Pheme.

Browser type

To use MySource Matrix, you need either Firefox version 2 (or above), Internet Explorer version 6 (or above) or related browsers. You can determine your browser's version from the About menu item, which is located under the brower's Help menu in Windows, or the self-titled menu in Mac OS X.

MySource Matrix asset map

The asset map

You will need a Java Runtime Environment (JRE) version of 1.4.2_12 or greater to run the asset map in Matrix.

To test your version of the JRE, log in to the edit interface and click the vertical, purple bar, running down the left-hand side of the screen. Your asset map, if it is working correctly, should look something like the image above.

On older computers, the asset map may take up to one minute to load. If you are unable to view the asset map, contact your computer support person.

Matrix user roles

There are four main user roles in MySource Matrix, based on responsibilities and activities. As a Matrix user, you may have more than one role.

  • Site owners (Content Custodians): Site owners have ultimate responsibility for a site, but generally delegate this to site coordinators.
  • Site Editors: Create web pages, update, edit and approve changes to existing pages. Manage site structure, navigation and web addresses. One or more Site Editors is normally designated as the Site coordinator.
  • Approvers: Approve or reject author changes to web pages on workflow sites.
  • Authors: Update and edit content in existing web pages on workflow sites.