Organising Data

Permissions

11.2.1. Which permissions can be granted?

In order to easily grant logical permission combinations, there are specific preset user roles:

You can change the preset permissions by granting detailed permissions.

Administrator

A folder's administrator owns all permissions for this folder. The owner can grant other users permissions to the folder.

  • Folder permissions: create objects and subfolders

  • Object permissions: read all objects, edit all objects, delete all objects

Viewer

A viewer can read all existing objects. A viewer has no other permissions.

  • Folder permissions: view the folder

  • Object permissions: read all objects

Reviewer

A reviewer can read and edit existing objects. The reviewer cannot create new objects though. The reviewer cannot delete objects.

  • Folder permissions: view the folder

  • Object permissions: read all objects, edit all objects

Author

An author is allowed to change or delete existing objects, to create and edit new objects, and to create subfolders.

  • Folder permissions: create objects and subfolders

  • Object permissions: read all objects, edit all objects, delete all objects

Detailed permissions

The preset permissions for the user roles can be refined. The following permissions can be granted.

  • Folders

    • view the folder

    • create objects

    • create objects and subfolders

  • read permissions

    • none

    • read own objects

    • read all objects

  • write permissions

    • none

    • edit own objects

    • edit all objects

  • delete permissions

    • none

    • delete own objects

    • delete all objects