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BluePrint permissions

When you create a Child Publication in a BluePrint, you must add the Child to the scope of Users and Groups. All shared Folders, Structure Groups and Categories inherit the permission settings from the Parent Publication.

The Content Manager allows you give Users and User Groups access to the items and actions they need to perform by setting rights and permissions.

To change these permissions, you must create a local copy of the Folder, Structure Group or Category. After the item is localized, previously shared settings can then be modified. You can either:

  • Inherit permissions
  • Create unique permissions for that item

As a result, permissions are inherited from the closest inheritance root. An inheritance root is an item that does not inherit from a Parent and that has unique permission settings. Virtual Folders do not have permission settings. (For more information about Virtual Folders, refer to the Content Manager Explorer help topics).

In the following example, shared Folder B inherits permissions from Folder A in the Parent Publication.

Shared items are representations of actual items and do not actually exist as such in the child publication unless they are localized. Following this logic, Folder B in the Child Publication above is a representation of Folder B in Parent Publication; it therefore derives its permissions from Folder A in Parent Publication (and not Folder A in Child Publication which has been localized).