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Background documentation Authorization Overview  Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

Authorizations can be set explicitly in six different places in cFolders.

Overview of the different authorizations in cFolders:

Where?

Who by?

Which activity?

What for?

Note

In the Settings menu on the Authorizations tab page

System administrators

Create

Delete

Collaborations

Status profiles

User groups

On the object detail screen (Authorizations pushbutton)

Users with administration authorization for the object

Administration

Write

Read

Create Document

Create Folder

Delete

None

Objects in folders (for example, document, data sheet, subfolder)

Can be overridden by status object authorizations

On the user group detail screen (Authorizations pushbutton)

Users with administration authorization for the object

Administration

Read

Write

None

User groups

In status profiles (Authorizations pushbutton on the status profile detail screen)

Users with administration authorization for status profiles

Administration

Write

Read

Status profile

On the status detail screen in status profiles (Object Authorizations pushbutton on the status detail screen in the status profile)

Users with write authorization for status profiles

Administration

Write

Read

Create Document

Create Folder

Delete

None

For objects in a particular status

Overrides all other authorizations. For example, if you have write authorization for a document but according to the status profile, you only have read authorization for the document in the status "New", you cannot change the document when it has this status. The object authorization in the status profile has priority.

On the status transition detail screen

Users with write authorization for status profiles

Authorization to carry out a status transition

Status transitions

 

 

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