Update module access permissions

As an Inspire administrator, you can add roles or users and set permissions for a specific module.

If you want to make permission changes to a specific module or module property, you can use the following topics instead of these generic steps:

Manage the Event log module
Manage the taxonomy module
Projects module properties
- Allow users to create project assignments and workflows
Translations optional features
- Allow files to remain unlocked during translation
- Allow profiling attribute filters for translation jobs
Content browser module properties and optional features
Component schema management optional features
- Allow the use of a custom schema

To update module access permissions:

From the Security menu, select Module access management.
From the Module access management tab, select the module that you want to update and click Update .
On the Permissions tab, select a user or role.
You can review the Details of the user or role in the new panel on right. You can see information such as Name, Type, and Memberships of the user or role that has access to the module.
To update user or role module access, complete the following sub-steps.
1. To add users or roles, on the Update Module Access Permissions dialog, select the Permissions tab, and click Add.
2. In the Select Users/Roles dialog, select the checkbox next to the name for available users or roles to add to the module.
  On the Select Users dialog, if the list is large or you only want to see a certain type of user, you can narrow the list in the following ways:
  - To see only names that contain a word or specific letters, in Filter, enter text. For example you can find names that contain "admin", or "review". You can't search for text in any other column except Name.
  - To see all users sorted by Name, Security Type, or User Type, click the column heading and then click the grey arrow. To sort by Name or User Type you can also use the Sort By drop-down box.
  - By default, names with a User Type of Support are not included in the list. To see these users, select the Include support users option.
3. After you finish selecting users or roles, click Select to add the users or roles to the module and return to the Permissions tab of the Update Module Access Permissions dialog.
4. To remove user or role access to a module, select a user or role and then click Remove.
To set user or role permissions for a module, complete the following sub-steps.
1. From the Update Module Access Permissions dialog, select the Permissions tab.
2. Select a user or role and then select the checkbox next to one or more permissions to set that permission for the selected user or role.
  The Read permission is selected by default and cannot be removed.
3. Clear the checkbox next to one or more permissions to remove the permission for the selected user or role.
To set user or role permissions for a module property, complete the following steps.
Module properties identify user capabilities for the module. For example, the module property, can_clear_event_logs, gives a user permission to clear logged events for that module and module property.
1. From the Update Module Access Permissions dialog, select the Properties tab and click Add.
  You can sort the Available Users/Roles list by Name or Type.
2. In the Select Users/Roles dialog, select the checkbox next to the name for available users or roles to add to the module property.
3. To remove permissions for a module property, select the user or role that you want to remove permissions for and click Remove.
4. After you finish selecting users or roles, click Select to add the users or roles to the module and return to Properties tab of the Update Module Access Permissions dialog
To display a list of users with access to the module, select the Users tab. This list is read-only.
You can add users either through a role or as an individual user.
To set the permissions, click Save.