Rights and Permissions for Users and Groups

Rights define the types of tasks that Users or User Groups can perform for a specific Publication. Permissions are settings placed on Folders, Structure Groups and Categories that define the actions Users or User Groups can perform on items for which they have the necessary Rights.

Rights
Rights define the types of tasks that users or groups can perform for a specific Publication. You assign rights to users or groups for an entire Publication. For example: to manipulate Components users require Component Management rights, to manipulate Schemas users require Schema Management rights.
Rights typically convey the security definition of a role in an organization. For example, the role of authors typically involves working with Components but not with Schemas, so users that are authors should have Component Management rights but not Schema Management rights. The system default user Groups therefore have default rights but not default permissions.
Permissions
Permission settings determine what a User or User Group can do on items for which they have rights within an organizational item:
  • Read—the user or group can view items
  • Write—the user or group can create or edit items
  • Delete—the user or group can delete items
  • Localize—the user or group can create local copies of shared BluePrint items
In the Content Manager, organizational items are: Folders, Structure Groups, and Categories.

The combination of the rights and permissions assigned to users or groups determine the actions that users can perform on items. For example, to create a Component, a user requires Component Management rights and write permissions for a Folder in which they can create the Component.