View, assign, or edit roles for a resource type.
Perform the following steps to edit explicit roles.
- Select a resource type from the Resource types list.
A list of resource instances appears.
- Click the Assign Access icon for
the required resource type. A list of roles associated with the resource
appears.
- Click the Edit Role icon for the
required role. A list of members appears.
Note: The Delete
Member from Role icon indicates that the member has an
explicit role assignment, which can be deleted. A check mark in the Inherited column
indicates that the role is acquired via the resource hierarchy. Implicit
roles are not displayed in the Resource Permissions portlet.
To view implicit roles, use the User and Group Permissions portlet.
Follow these steps to add a user or group to a role:
- Click Add.
- Browse or search for the appropriate user or user group.
- Select the appropriate users or user groups from the search results.
- Click OK to save changes. The user or group
is now explicitly assigned to the role.
Follow these steps to remove a user or group from an explicit
role assignment:
- Click the Delete from Role icon.
- Click Yes when the confirmation dialog
box appears.
Note: Removing a user or user group
from a role does not delete the user or group from the portal. The
previous procedure removes the member from explicit assignments to
the specified role. This procedure does not affect explicit assignments
to other roles on the specified resource. For example, removing a
user from the Editor@Market News Page role does not affect the user's
assignment to the User@Market News Page role. This procedure does
not affect implicit or inherited role assignments.
To
remove implicit role assignments, do one of the following:
- Use the Manage Users and Groups portlet
to remove the member from the user group.
- Use the Resource Permissions portlet or
the User and Group Permissions portlet to remove
the role from the group to which the member belongs.
To remove inherited role assignments, do one of the following:
- Use the Resource Permissions portlet to
create a role block. Inserting a role block affects all users and
groups who do not have explicitly assigned roles on a resource. See
the Creating a role block section for instructions.
- Use the Resource Permissions portlet or
the User and Group Permissions portlet to change
the role that the member has on the parent resource.