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Own is the file ownership permission. This permission should be set by the system administrator on the repository root to allow them to set permission of any kind to any file. For newly created files (e.g. freshly referenced data source, created layers, designed maps, modified styles, etc.) the Own permission is applied for the user who created it.

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Please note that Ownership permission excludes users from each individual permission and denial of permission which means that the Owner of a specific resource cannot be selectively denied any permission. It will always allow full control over a resource.


Read

This permission allows users to view a Resource (like point style, page layout, etc.) or the Layer configuration (layer properties). If a user has Read permission:

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Publish can only be applied on folders, not files. It designates a location for a user or group of users where they can publish private (Owned) resources or layers, effectively making them departmental or corporate and available to others.

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The four permissions described below are specific to References and even though they can be applied on folders, they only affect the References. The first two are the most obvious. Some users can only ‘View’ data, others are charged with ‘Edit’-ing the data as well. The latter two were created to improve security. Both those permissions limit user’s ability to extract data from the system without sacrificing access to the data within the Earthlight system.

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When a file is denied to an individual user on a folder level, it cannot be allowed for them directly on the file level. From the permission point of view the closeness of the permission application is irrelevant.

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Permissions configuration

The ‘Shares’ tool protects all files in Earthlight. Since Resources are self-contained files the ‘File control’ and ‘File ownership’ permissions apply to each and every one of them independently. As mentioned earlier the model for Layers is based on Master – Link paradigm. This means that ‘File control’ and “File ownership’ permissions act on them in similar way to Resources but ‘Data control’ permission can only be applied in one place (on the Reference) for all users.

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    •  - a grey tick in front of a permission name represents inherited permission.  
    •  - a green tick shows that a permission is set on the current level. 
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On the screenshot above user jerry (Jerry Doroszkiewicz) inherits ‘List’ permission from a parent folder or a group he belongs to. The ‘Read’ and ‘Write’ permissions are applied directly on the user level.

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Allows the report to be saved as CSV file for further processing

Managing security for Metadata forms and data

Below you can find how different permissions works with Metadata:

Own - self explanatory. Owner can do anything with the schema and the underlying table
List - controls if particular schema shows up in File Explorer or Open / Save window in Metadata tab
Read - allows viewing of a metadata schema in Metadata tab
Write - allows modifying of an existing metadata schema in Metadata tab
View - enables viewing of the metadata content in Layer Properties / Browse Metadata
Edit - enables editing of the metadata content in Layer Properties / Browse Metadata

Please note that only "View" and "Edit" permissions controls metadata access for end users in Layer properties