Permission Templates
You can create permission templates in a Model Manager database as a way of reusing permission assignments for different models, files, or assets. This saves you the work of manually granting the same set of permissions to users and groups for multiple database object. Creating permission templates also allows you to propagate permission requirement changes to multiple database objects by only updating the permissions in one place — the permission assignments of the permission template itself.
See Permission Templates in the Model Manager Reference Manual.
The Permission Templates page, opened by clicking Permission Templates in the Database navigation sidebar, shows a table with all user-defined permission templates in the database. The table columns are:
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The Name column — the name of a permission template.
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The Type column — the type of database objects that the permission template applies to.
Click on the name of a permission template in the table to show more details for that permission template. Click the Add button to add a new permission template.
Adding Permission Templates
To add a new user-defined permission template:
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Write a name for the permission template in the Name field.
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Select the type of permission template to create in the Type list. You can select between Asset, File, or Model.
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Select the user or group you want to grant permissions for in the Add list. Added users or groups shows up as table rows. Select each user’s or group’s granted permissions in the Permissions list.
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Click the Save button to add the new permission template.
The Permission Template Page
The Permission Template page contains details on a user-defined permission template in the database. The fields are:
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Name. The name of the permission template.
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Type. The type of database objects that the permission template applies to.
The permissions that are granted by the permission template are shown in a table.
Click Edit to edit the permission template.
Updating the permission assignments for a permission template affects not only future applications of the template but also the permissions of database objects to which the permission template has already been applied.
Click Delete to delete the permission template in the database. This deletion is not permanent — you can restore the deleted template by clicking Restore.
Click Delete Permanently if you do want to permanently delete the permission template in the database. Permanent deletion will only succeed if the permission template is not assigned to any database objects.