About Rights Management users

Various types of users work with Rights Management to accomplish different tasks:

  • The system administrator or other information systems (IS) person installs and configures Rights Management. 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 Rights Management URL, auditing and privacy notifications, invited user registration notices, and default offline lease periods.

  • Rights Management 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 Rights Management user interface area of Administration Console.

    Rights Management Super Administrator
    Users with this role have access to all of the Rights Management settings in Administration Console. These permissions are associated with the role:
    • Manage configuration

    • Manage policy

    • Manage policy sets

    • Manage documents

    • Manage document publishers

    • Manage invited and local users

    • View events

    • Delegate

    • Invite external users

    Rights Management Administrator
    Users with this role can configure the Rights Management server, using the Configuration page in Rights Management section of Administration Console. This permission is associated with the role, Manage Configuration.
    Note: Users with this role must also have the Administration Console User role to be able to log in to Administration Console and edit any configuration-related settings.

    Rights Management Policy Set Administrator
    Users with this role can use the Rights Management section of Administration Console to edit other users’ polices and to create, edit, and delete policy sets. When a policy set administrator creates a policy set, they can assign a policy set coordinator to that policy set. These permissions are associated with the role:
    • Manage policy

    • Manage policy sets

    • Manage documents

    • Manage document publishers

    • View events

    • Delegate

    Note: Users with this role must also have the Administration Console User role to be able to log in to Administration Console and edit any configuration-related settings.

    Rights Management Manage Invited and Local Users
    Users with this role can perform tasks required to manage all invited and local users on the relevant Rights Management web pages. These permissions are associated with the role:
    • Manage invited and local users

    • Invite external users

    • Access end-user web pages

    Note: Users with this role must also have the Administration Console User role to be able to log in to Administration Console and edit any configuration-related settings.

    Rights Management Invite User
    Users with this role can invite users. These permissions are associated with the role:
    • Invite external users

    • Access end-user web pages

    Rights Management End User
    Users with this role can access Rights Management end-user web pages. This role can also be assigned to administrators to allow administrators to create policies using the end-user pages. This permission is associated with the role Access end-user web pages.

  • Users within the organization who have valid Rights Management 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 Rights Management directory, if the administrator creates an account for them, or if they register with Rights Management 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 LiveCycle SDK to integrate custom applications with Rights Management.

Rights Management administrators can create custom roles by using the following permissions in User Management:

  • Rights Management Manage Configuration

  • Rights Management Manage Invited and Local Users

  • Rights Management Manage Policy Sets

  • Rights Management Manage Policy Sets

  • Rights Management View Server Events

  • Rights Management Change Policy Owner

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