A role-based permission is a permission that CentraSite confers to users through a role. A role is a set of role-based permissions that you assign to users or groups.

Role-based permissions enable access to an entire set of objects or give users the ability to perform certain operations in CentraSite. Unlike instance-level permissions, which are granted directly to individual users or groups, role-based permissions are assigned to roles, and roles are assigned to users and groups. You cannot assign a role-based permission to a user or group directly.

There are two basic types of role-based permissions: