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Configure Permissions

Overview

While Permissions are used in Hubble to manage which users can do what with inquiries and folders, in Administrator they are also used for any saved objects such as Connections, Profiles, documents, folders and Reusable Inquiry Objects. You can assign Permissions at the individual or group level.

When new Data Sources (Connections and Profiles) are created in Administrator, the Administrator must be sure to grant Read Permissions to the users who need to use those Connections and Profiles when using Hubble. By default, all users other than those in the Administrators Group under Users and Groups are denied all Permissions to the Data Sources.

When a new folder or document is created, the user who created it is automatically granted all Permissions for that folder or document. Permissions are retained by objects that are renamed or moved, and are deleted when the object is deleted.

Any changes to Permissions made within Administrator will take effect immediately.

To view and potentially edit the Permissions on an object in Administrator:

  1. Log into your repository if you are not logged in already.
  2. Navigate to the object you wish to view/edit Permissions on.
  3. Either right-click on the object and select Permissions or highlight the object and select Permissions on the Ribbon.
  4. This launches the Permissions dialog, where you can set Permissions as desired for a user or group of users.

Administrator Permissions

Users who are members of the Administrators Group under Users and Groups are not subject to permissions and therefore have access and visibility to all stored objects.

Applying Permissions to the Other Items in a Folder

Permissions assigned to a folder are not automatically inherited by documents within the folder; however, any change to the folder can be copied to the folder’s contents when the action has been completed. After changing the permissions for a folder and then clicking OK, you are asked whether or not to apply those same changes to every document and sub-folder within this folder:

Answering ‘Yes’ means that the same Permissions will be applied to everything within that folder; answering ‘No” means that the Permissions to the contents in that folder will remain unchanged.

Setting Documents to Inherit Permissions from Parent Folders

Folder permissions are not automatically inherited by the documents or sub-folders in them, but can be copied from a parent folder by selecting the document or documents, right-clicking on them and selecting the Inherit Permissions option: