Permissions Administration Overview

To perform database operations such as reading, creating, updating, or deleting data, a user or a user group must have the requisite permissions. The user or user group can acquire permissions by one of these methods:

  • Direct permissions provided by the administrator for a user or a user group.

    OR

    Inherit permissions from their groups.

    Note: Users in a specific user group can inherit permissions from the Preferred group.

  • For a selected class in the CES database, permissions can be specified at the following levels:

    • Class level permissions

    • Object level permissions

    • Property level permissions

    • Read Security permissions

The key features of Permissions Administration are:

  • To display read and edit permissions that a user or a user group have on a class, object, or a class property.

  • To modify permissions of users and user groups.