Annotation access rights

Annotations have the following security characteristics:

• Each annotation is independently persistable and independently secureable by its own ACL.
• Annotations are not versionable and are not automatically passed from one version of an annotated document to the next version. In order for the next version to include the same annotation as its previous version, the annotation would have to be newly created for that document version.
• The document or folder that has an annotation will be the security parent of the annotation if the grantee has been set with an inheritable depth. The permissions will appear on the annotation with a source of inherited, which is normal in security parent relationships.
• Just like document content, an annotation's content elements, if there are any, are not independently securable and can only be accessed through the annotation object itself. In effect, then, an annotation's content has the same security as the annotation. In Administration Console for Content Platform Engine, an annotation's security information appears on the Security page of its property sheet.
• Like other objects, annotations have an owner property. An annotation owner need not be the same as the owner of the document or folder that contains the annotation.