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.. index:: Permissions

.. _edg_permissions_management:

EDG Permissions Management
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This view gives administrators global access to permission profile settings for current EDG asset collections. 

.. seealso:: For an overview of access control in EDG, see :ref:`operationalizing_data_governance`.

Administrators can assign or revoke either individual users or their security roles to **viewer**, **editor** or **manager** profiles for any or all collections, along with their working copies.

The first three settings let administrators (re-) assign or remove profiles for users on *all* collections:

.. figure:: _images/edg_permissions_management.png
  :alt: TopBraid EDG Permissions Management Page
  :align: center
  :class: edg-figure
  
  **TopBraid EDG Permissions Management Page**


The sections below let you define or remove assignments specific to each collection:

In the following, the Administrator and Jane Smith have been assigned an editor role for the Enterprise Ontology vocabulary, and JimHarrison is being assigned a viewer role for the same vocabulary:

.. note:: Roles are modular and thus can be assigned roles like users.