Guidelines for Granting Privileges

Privileges, along with lifecycles, roles, and design parts, manage your organization’s process control. Tighter process control can be achieved with the use of CM rules.

Considerations

When considering the level of process control to implement, follow these guidelines:

- The general grant rules should be sufficient to implement process control for most users.

- Although your can grant or deny privileges to specific users, it is better for administrative and maintenance purposes to grant the privilege to a group and include the user in that group.

NOTE The more rules you enforce, the more checks are needed, which may impact your system’s performance.

- There may be times when you need to correct or undo an action. For such occurrences you could create a group to perform semi-administrative tasks, for example, product-level item privileges:

- Move item to another design part.

- Action to any state.

- Revise item content.

For example, a user has actioned an item revision to the next normal state but wishes to return the item revision to the previous state.

Related Topics

Privilege Reference

Managing Privileges