Permissions for glossary content

The Information Governance Catalog Glossary Administrator can set permissions to categories, and subsequently all terms in those categories. Permissions provide an added layer of security by defining who can access specific content in the catalog.

You can set permissions in the Administration > Catalog Management page. Permissions are inherited from parent categories to subcategories and their contents. Therefore, if the permissions for a user are changed and the user no longer has access to a parent category, then that user also no longer has access to any subcategories or terms that are in any of the subcategories of that parent category.

For categories and the terms within those categories:
  • If permitted, the specified users can access categories and the terms within those categories, as defined by their security roles and their workflow roles.
  • If not permitted, the specified users will not see categories in search results or other glossary displays, such as the category tree or displays of terms.
  • If not permitted, even users with Editor or Publisher workflow roles will not be able to edit terms in the categories.

You can assign different development glossary permissions, based on categories, to different users who have workflow roles, such that they are responsible for specific subsets of the glossary.

Note: If you assign roles to users only by using group inheritance, you can configure category permissions for groups only. To configure category permissions for individual users as well, you need to assign roles to the users individually in IBM InfoSphere Information Server Web console.