User Manual

To set the permissions of a folder for users or groups:

1.Select the folder.

2.Select the Security tab as shown in the image below:
 

3.Select a user to see the user's permissions for the folder.The permissions of the selected user will be displayed below the list of users.
 

 
The name of the folder you selected will display on the bar at the top of the user permissions section.
 

Tip

When you enter the security tab, you may notice an icon that appears to the left of some libraries or folders:   This same icon shows beside certain user or group names:     The icon beside a library or folder indicates that user permissions have been specifically set for that folder. The icon beside the user or group names indicates which users have had their permissions specifically set for the selected library or folder. Note that if the permissions have not been specifically set at that level but are only being inherited, the icon will not show. Therefore, if there is no icon beside a folder, this does NOT mean that there are no permission settings enforced for that folder but that the permissions .

4.To override default or inherited user permissions simply change those permissions in the DMS by ticking the Allow or Deny boxes.

5.Select Apply.

Permission Rules

•The DMS introduces the ability to Deny and Allow permissions that differs from other system and default permissions in NovaCore in that Deny and Allow are only in force when selected. This is in contrast to default user permissions (see User Permissions) where a selected permission gives a user permission to perform the action and an unselected permission does not.
 

•Folder permissions override default user permissions.
 

•Folder permissions can be inherited from various places including parent folders, default user permissions and group permissions.

•When selected, a DMS folder's Allow and Deny permission will explicitly override an inherited permission from a parent folder or the default user permission. However, if neither Allow nor Deny is selected for a folder then a parent folder's permission is enforced if it exists and if not the default user permission is used.

•If a user who is part of a group is assigned certain permissions for a folder that are different to the group's permissions for that same folder, the Deny option will always take presidency. For example, if User1 is in Group A and Group A is denied the View permission while User1 allows the View Permission, then the user's View Permission will be denied.
 

Tips for Working With Permissions

•Hover your cursor over a permission to see who set it, where it is being inherited from or which group is enforcing a Deny permission. This information will also display on the status bar (see Understanding Screen Layout).
 

 

•Remember that when a permission option box is filled in (as in the image above) this means that the permission is being inherited.