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Installation and Administration Guide
Installation and Administration Guide
Users, roles, and permissions
Managing permissions
Changing permissions of users and roles
Changing permissions of users and roles
On
Permissions
page, click by
Role or
User
.
To change permissions of a role, click
Roles
.
To change permission of a user, click
Users
.
From the dropdown box, select the group of roles or users whose permissions you want to change.
A list of all roles or users belonging to this group appears.
You can search for specific roles or users by using the search field.
Click the role or user whose permissions you want to change.
A list of actions, grouped in sections, together with the respective permissions for the role or user appears.
If a role has permission for a certain action, the system displays
in column
Allow
.
If a role does not have permission for a certain action, nothing is displayed in column
Allow
.
If a role is explicitly denied permission for a certain action, the system displays a column
Deny
and displays
in the column.
To change permissions of a role or a user, click
Change
button of the respective group of permissions.
A window appears where you can perform the following:
Explicitly grant or implicitly deny permissions.
If a role has not been
explicitly denied
permission for an action, the system displays only column
Allow
containing checkboxes for each action. If a checkbox is selected, the role has permissions for this action. If it is unselected, the role does not have permission for this action.
To grant or deny permissions of the role, select or deselect the checkboxes of the respective action.
When you finish, click
Done
button.
Explicitly deny permissions.
If a role has already been explicitly denied permission for an action in the group of actions, the system displays column
Allow
and column
Deny
. Otherwise, the system displays only column
Allow
.
To explicitly deny permissions, you must display column
Deny
by clicking the
Show
link, at the bottom of the window.
To explicitly deny or no longer explicitly deny permission for an action, select or deselect the checkbox of the respective action in column
Deny
.
When you finish, click
Done
button.
NOTE
: You cannot change the permission of the
Administrators
role.
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Related topics:
Changing global and section permissions
Changing permissions of users and roles
Changing permissions of individual items
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