Granting / Modifying Permissions on a Document

  1. Access the Documents and Media Library.

  2. Navigate to the document for which you wish to modify permissions.

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  3. Click DropDownMenu.gif.

  4. Click Permissions.

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  5. Enable the permissions for each role as desired by checking the appropriate boxes.   
     

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    If a user type is given VIEW permission on a document, but not on the article, portlet, nor page upon which the document is located, the user may be able to perform a search in the portal search field and find the document in the search results.

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    redx.gif view permission on portlet

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  1. Turn off permissions per  role as necessary by removing the checkboxes as appropriate.

  2. Click This file only.

 

 

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You have successfully modified permissions of a document.   If you added documents in bulk, you must still modify permissions on each document.