About document security users

Various types of users work with document security to accomplish different tasks:

  • The system administrator or other information systems (IS) person installs and configures document security. This person may also be responsible for configuring global settings for the server, web pages, and policies and documents.

    These settings may include, for example, a base document security URL, auditing and privacy notifications, invited user registration notices, and default offline lease periods.

  • Document security administrators create policies and policy sets, and manage policy-protected documents for users as required. They also create invited user accounts, and monitor system, document, user, policy, policy set, and custom events. They may also be responsible for configuring the global server, and web page and policy settings in conjunction with a system administrator.

    Administrators can assign users the following roles in the User Management area of administration console. Users who are assigned these roles perform their tasks in the document security user interface area of administration console.

  • Users within the organization who have valid document security accounts create their own policies, use policies to protect documents, track and manage their policy-protected documents, and monitor events that are related to their documents.

  • Policy set coordinators manage documents, view events, and manage other policy set coordinators (based on their permissions). Administrators designate users as policy set coordinators for particular policy sets.

  • Users who are external to your organization (for example, a business partner) can use policy-protected documents if they are in the document security document security directory, if the administrator creates an account for them, or if they register with document security through an automated email invitation process. Depending on how the administrator enables the access settings, the invited users may also have permission to apply policies to documents, to create, modify and delete their policies, and to invite other external users to use their policy-protected documents.

  • Developers use the AEM forms SDK to integrate custom applications with document security.

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