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To Assign a Permission to a User / Person

You can assign a permission either by associating the permission to the user / person, or by associating the user / person to the permission, whichever is more convenient.

  1. Open the System Admin tab (View > System Administration).
  2. Click the Security icon .
  3. Expand the Permissions folder, then expand the subfolder containing the permission you want to assign.
  4. Do one of the following:

    1. Expand the Users folder.
    2. Drag a person from the Users folder onto the permission you want.

      You may have to refresh to see the change. No save is required after this operation.

    or

    1. Click the permission you want, which opens the permission in the Content pane.
    2. Expand the Persons topic (in the Content pane) and do one of the following:
      • Drag a person from the Users folder (System Admin tab) onto the Persons topic.

        or

      • Click the Query Persons link in the Persons topic to search for the person(s) you want, then drag one or more persons from the search results into the Persons topic.

        or

      • Enter a person’s code in the first available Code field, and then tab to the Name field to validate that the code is correct.

    or

    1. Open a person object into the Content pane and expand the person's Permissions topic.
    2. Drag the permission from the System Admin tab onto the Permissions topic.

  5. Save your changes when finished.
Parent topic: Defining Security