In addition to propagating permissions that control the access to an asset instance (as described above), it is also possible to propagate permissions that control the access to the asset instance's profiles.

Profile permissions of the root asset of a composite asset can be propagated to the other components if the components have the same type as the root asset. This restriction arises because different asset types can have different sets of profiles, whereas assets of the same type have the same set of profiles.

Propagation of profile permissions is activated when you mark the checkbox Propagate profile permissions in the asset's Permissions tab. This checkbox can only be selected if you have also marked the checkbox Propagate Permissions to dependent objects.