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Encyclopedia permissions
Encyclopedia permissions are assigned to roles. In turn, roles are assigned to Users. SACM also assigns permissions to the System Architect commands that roles can execute against encyclopedias.
An important concept to bear in mind is that you grant encyclopedia permissions to encyclopedia objects, not to the individual instances of those objects. For example, you can assign to Role_1 the Write permission to entity definitions. But for that role, you cannot explicitly assign the Write permission to Entity_X and explicitly deny it to Entity_Y. In other words, you assign permissions to object types, not instances of the types.
Encyclopedia permissions that you assign with SACM are as follows:
Permission type
Permission value
Effect
Definition
Read
Allows a definition to be seen and opened.
 
Write
Allows a definition to be created and updated.
 
Override
Prevents inheritance of any permission value.
Diagram
Read
Allows a diagram to be seen and opened.
 
Write
Allows a diagram to be created and updated.
 
Apply to dependent definitions
The values assigned are also assigned to the underlying definitions of the symbols in that diagram.
 
Override
Prevents inheritance of any permission value.
Macro
Executable
Allows a macro to be executed.
 
Override
Prevents inheritance of any permission value.
Menu
Enabled
Causes a menu or menu option to become enabled.
 
Visible
Causes a menu or menu option to become visible.
 
Override
Prevents inheritance of any permission value.
See also
Permissions