Working with users, roles and permissions

To access an SDL Trados GroupShare resource, a user needs to be part of an organization. Organizations give their users roles and permissions.

Guiding principles of GroupShare access control

  • Users can have one or more roles in an organization.
  • Users have the permissions granted by the role.
  • User can and usually do have different roles, and, therefore, different permissions, in different organizations.
  • Users' effective permissions in an organization consists of the sum of permissions granted by all the roles users have in that organization.

Example: Users want to update resources

When users try to access resources, for example to update a TM, SDL Trados GroupShare compares the users' permissions to the permissions needed to perform the action. Users who do not have sufficient permissions cannot access resources and cannot perform actions on them.