Users, Groups, Roles, and Permissions
Users are individuals that are known to CentraSite. You assign roles and permissions to users to specify which operations they can perform and which registry objects they can access. You can create groups of users and assign roles and permissions to those groups.
Permissions determine the operations users can perform and the set of objects users can access.
Instance-level permissions grant users or groups access to a specific instance of an object in the registry, a specific folder in the repository, or a specific file in the repository. For example, you would use instance-level permissions to give a user or group the ability to modify a specific asset in the catalog.
Role-based permissions grant roles access to an entire class of objects or give the ability to perform certain operations. For example, you would use role-based permissions to give the role the ability to edit all of an organization's assets.
The following diagram illustrates the relationships between instance-level permissions, role-based permissions, users, groups, and roles.
