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Use

You can launch the Permission Editor in two ways:

  • From the default system administrator role supplied by SAP, so that you can set permissions for all PCD objects, folders, security zones, business objects, and applications in the GPAL repositories from a single user interface. This option opens the central Permission Editor.

  • From the Portal Content Studio, from applications in the GPAL repositories, or other object-specific administration tool, enabling you to set permissions only for objects for which you have owner permission. This option opens the object-specific Permission Editor, which allows administrators to set permissions for specific objects in their particular work area without requiring access to the central Permission Editor.

Procedure

To launch the central Permission Editor:

  1. Choose Start of the navigation path System Administration  Next navigation step Permissions End of the navigation path.

  2. Locate the folder or object you want to assign or edit permissions for, right-click it and choose Start of the navigation path Open  Next navigation step Permissions End of the navigation path from the context menu.

To launch the object-specific Permission Editor:

  1. In the Portal Catalog or GPAL repository, locate the object, folder or application for which you want to set or edit permissions.

  2. Right-click the object and choose Open from the context menu to launch the desired administration tool or editor available for that object (for example: Properties, Permissions, Object-Based Navigation, Related Links, Dynamic Navigation, Delta Link Tracer).

    Links appear across the top of each of the tools or editors for all of them.

  3. Click the Permissions link to open the Permission Editor for the current object.

Result

The Permission Editor displays the currently assigned permissions in the Assigned Permissions area of the editor. To assign or edit permissions, see Setting Permissions in the Permission Editor .

Note

At the top of the editor, you may receive a message indicating permission inheritance, such as:

  • This object inherits its permissions from: <object name>

  • Permissions for this object were modified; the object no longer inherits permissions