About Permissions

Each role allows the following permissions for each security group: Read (R), Write (W), Delete (D), or Admin (A). The permission that a user has to access the files in a security group is the highest permission defined by any of the user's roles. If a user has the guest and contributor roles, where guest is given Read permission and contributor is given Write permission to the Public security group, the user will have Write permission to content in the Public security group.

As shown in Figure: Example of Assigned Permissions, Joe Smith and Ann Wallace have permissions to two security groups:

• Joe Smith has Read, Write, and Delete permission to the EngDocs security group, but only Read permission to the HRDocs security group. As a member of the EngUsers role, he has been given Read, Write, and Delete access to Engineering Documents, but only Read access to Human Resource documents.

• Ann Wallace has Read, Write, and Delete permission to the HRDocs security group, but only Read permission to the EngDocs security group. As a member of the HRUsers role, she has been given Read, Write, and Delete access to Human Resource documents, but only Read access to Engineering documents.