Creating and editing permission levels

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Creating and editing permission levels

A permission level is a named set of permissions that you assign to roles for particular repository items. By default, Meridian Enterprise Server includes some example permission levels that you can use:

Full Access
Viewer
Manager

These names were chosen because they best represent the actions and permissions that are available in a repository and the design of Meridian Enterprise Server. These permission levels have default permissions assigned to them that you can see as described in the following task. They are just a starting point. You can edit or delete them and create other permission levels if you want to.

The available permissions are described in the following table:

Available permissions
Permission	Description
Configure repository	Modify the repository configuration. May only be granted as a global permission as described in Configuring global permissions.
List Document	Any access to a document
List Object Tag	Any access to an object tag.
List Project	Any access to a project. Does not apply to the documents or object tags associated with the project.
Manage Project	Change the membership of roles assigned to a project.
View Native	View the native content of a document.
View Rendition	View the rendition content of a document.
NEW Share Collections	Can make a private collection that they own public.
NEW Edit Comments of Others	Can edit the comments in a discussion that were entered by other users.
NEW Delete Comments	Can delete comments in a discussion that were entered by other users.
NEW Close Comments	Can close discussions that they started.
NEW Download native document	Can download the latest revision of the primary document. Users will be denied access to download a batch of documents if they do not have this permission for all of the documents in the batch.
NEW Download rendition	Can download the latest rendition of the primary document. Users will be denied access to download a batch of documents if they do not have this permission for all of the documents in the batch.

To create or edit a permission level:

In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, in the BC group, click REPOSITORIES. The Repositories page appears and lists the existing repositories and Meridian Enterprise vaults.
Double-click the name of the repository that you want to configure. The Overview page for the repository appears.
In the menu, click MANAGEMENT TOOLS. The management tool s for the selected repository appear.
In the SECURITY group, for the Security item, click MANAGE. The Global permissions page appears.
Click PERMISSION LEVEL. The Permission Level page appears and lists the existing permission levels.
To create a new permission level:
- Click Create New. The NEW PERMISSION LEVEL dialog box appears.
To edit an existing permission level:
- Select the name of the permission level that you want to edit and in the toolbar, click Edit. The EDIT PERMISSION LEVEL dialog box appears.
Click options or type values using the descriptions in the following table.

Role options
Option	Description
Name	Type a description name for the permission level. If this permission level will be in addition to the default permission level , make the name compatible with the default permission level names.
Description	Type a detailed description of the permission level for reference by system administrators.

Click OK. If you created a new permission level, the new permission level is added to the list.
On the right side of the page, select the permissions that you want to assign to the selected permission level.

To delete a permission level:

In Meridian Enterprise Server Administration Console, in the BC group, click REPOSITORIES. The Repositories page appears and lists the existing repositories and Meridian Enterprise vaults.
Double-click the name of the repository that you want to configure. The Overview page for the repository appears.
In the menu, click MANAGEMENT TOOLS. The management tool s for the selected repository appear.
In the SECURITY group, for the Security item, click MANAGE. The Global permissions page appears.
Click PERMISSION LEVEL. The Permission Level page appears and lists the existing permission levels.
Select the name of the permission level that you want to delete and in the toolbar, click Remove. The permission level is deleted.