Permissions
Permissions determine the Glossary assets that a user can access and the level of access to the asset. You can assign permissions to users for a glossary or business term, policy, and category. Permissions that you apply to a user for a glossary are applicable to business terms, policies, and categories in the glossary.
If a user has the privileges to perform actions on Glossary assets, the user requires write permission to perform the actions. Users need read permission to view Glossary assets in the Glossary workspace. Use the deny permission to hide Glossary assets from a user or disallow the user from performing Glossary asset management tasks. Use the allow permission to permit a user to view Glossary assets or perform Glossary asset management tasks.
Users and groups can have the following types of permissions:
- Direct permissions
- Permissions that you assign directly to a user or group.
- Inherited permissions
- Permissions that users who are part of a group inherit based on the group membership. You cannot revoke inherited permissions directly from the user. Permissions that you assign directly to a user takes precedence over inherited permissions when there is a conflict. If you have directly assigned a user a permission and you want the user to inherit permission instead, choose the inherit option when you edit permissions.
- For example, if you assign the sales group the permission to view the sales glossary, all the users who are part of the sales group can view the sales glossary. If a user does not have permission to view the sales glossary due to a direct permission, and you add the user to the sales group, the direct permission of the user takes precedence. To ensure that the user always inherits permissions and to enable the user to view the sales glossary, edit the permission of the user and choose the inherit option.
- Effective permissions
- Superset of all permissions for a user or group. Includes direct permissions and inherited permissions.
Assigning Permissions
Assign permissions to a user or group to control access to glossaries.
1. In the Glossary Security workspace, click the Permissions tab.
The list of users and groups appears in the Users and Groups panel.
2. Select a user to assign permissions.
3. From the Actions menu, select Add.
The Add Permissions wizard appears.
4. Select the Glossary asset for which you want to add permissions to the user, and click Next.
5. Select the permission that you want to assign to the user for read and write actions.
Option | Description |
|---|
Allow | Permits the user to view or edit the Glossary asset. |
Deny | Prevents the user from viewing or editing the Glossary asset. |
6. Click Save.