Authority checking flowcharts

This section introduces the flowcharts, descriptions, and examples of how authority is checked.

Use them to answer specific questions about whether a particular authority scheme will work or diagnose problems with your authority definitions. The charts also highlight the types of authority that cause the greatest performance effect.

The process of checking authority is divided into a primary flowchart and several smaller flowcharts showing specific parts of the process. Depending on the combination of authorities for an object, the steps in some flowcharts might be repeated several times.

The numbers at the upper left of figures on the flowcharts are used in the examples following the flowcharts.

The steps representing the search of a profile's private authorities are highlighted:

Step 6 in Figure 1
Step 6 in Figure 1
Step 2 in Figure 2

Repeating these steps is likely to cause performance problems in the authority checking process.