Defining Role Permissions

Prerequisites

You are assigned the portal Content Admin role.
You have activated the Social Content Admin role.

Context

The following procedure describes how to define permissions for a role. You can assign role permissions to entities, relationships, and attributes. You can also define that a specific role has administrator rights for People Explorer.

Procedure

In the People Explorer Administration window, select Roles Define Roles and Assign to Entities .
The Define Roles and Assign to Entities window appears.
Select the Assign Permissions to Role tab.
To add a new role, choose New Role, enter a display name, and choose OK.
To define permissions for a role, select the role and for each item type - Entities, Relationships, and Attributes - assign the required permissions:
- Choose an item from the Item dropdown list, then choose a permission from the Permission dropdown list (for entities, the only available permission is Read).
- To assign the permission to the role, choose the corresponding check box in the Assign column. Leave the check box unselected, if you do not want to assign the permission to the role for the specific item.
  
  Note
  You can assign a permission to all items by choosing [All], then exclude one or more items by choosing those items and leaving the checkbox unselected.
- To delete a row, select it and choose Delete.
To assign administrator rights to the selected role, select the Administrator rights checkbox.
Save your changes.