Access to applications and components


Overview

Specify user access to composite applications, application pages, and application components by customizing the default membership roles that are initially displayed in the Roles portlet: Administrators and Users.


The hierarchy of objects

Use the Roles portlet to view, create, edit, and delete the membership roles for a composite application. When you create or edit application membership roles, you specify the levels of access that members in the role have to work with the application (including editing the application and managing its membership), its pages, and its components:


Application access

All members of a composite application can view and use application pages, regardless of their assigned roles. For each role that you define for an application, you can choose one or both of the following additional permissions for Application Access Settings:

Therefore, all application membership roles are derived from one of three application role types used by portal access control:


Application manager


Application membership manager


Application user


The name of an application membership role does not always imply the permission provided by the underlying application role type. To verify the precise level of access that an application membership role provides, open the Roles portlet in the application: From the application page menu, click Manage Application Roles.

The following table describes the access levels that are available for an application based on the default membership roles, Administrators and Users. You create new membership roles for an application by customizing these predefined roles.


Pages and components access

Application users will be able to work with all application pages and each application component according to the level of access that you select in the Pages and Components Access Settings table of the Roles portlet. The default application membership roles provide the access levels shown in the following table:

When you create application roles, you change the default settings and select the level of access that you want application users to have when working with all application pages and particular application components. The levels of access that are available for selection are the portal roles that control access rights to portal resources:

To make selection easy, each access level includes a description next to the portal role name: for example, Editor (Editors are allowed to create and edit shared resources).


Parent

User access to templates and applications


Related tasks


Work with instances of composite applications

 


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