Profile Permissions
Assets include an additional level of access control called a profile permission. Profile permissions enable you to control access to individual profiles within an instance of an asset.
A profile represents a collection of attributes. It is used to group the metadata for an asset when the asset is displayed in the user interface. Profiles enable CentraSite Control and the CentraSite plug-in for Eclipse to present the details for an asset in an organized manner. In CentraSite Control, for example, all of the attributes associated with a particular profile are grouped together on a separate tab.
The attributes associated with a profile are displayed on individual tabs in CentraSite Control
Profile permissions determine which profiles a user sees when he or she views an asset with CentraSite Control or the CentraSite plug-in for Eclipse. You might use profile permissions, for example, to limit the amount of information that consumers see for an asset.
Important: | Profile permissions restrict access at the UI level but not the API level. At the API level, profile permissions are irrelevant. If a user has view permission on an asset, he or she can access all of the asset's metadata through the API, regardless of whether profile permissions exist for the asset. |
