Overview of model item access permissions
At the Model item level, you define the access permissions of Model items through the Packages that scope them. The Model is a package, and Model items can be scoped by the Model.
 | Database Administrators and users that have Owner Access Permissions to a database have owner access rights to all Models and Packages in that database. These access permissions cannot be revoked at the Model or Model item level. |
If a user can open a Model, that user has read access to all items in that Model.
The access permissions, Public Read and Public Write properties affect Model item access as follows:
• Model Read Access Permission - When granted to a user, that user can open the Model.
• Model Write Access Permission - When granted to a user, that user can open the Model, and change items scoped by the Model.
• Model Owner Access Permission - When granted to a user, that user can open the Model, change items scoped by the Model, and set access permissions for the Model.
• Package Write Access Permission - When granted to a user, that user can change items scoped by the Package.
• Package Owner Access Permission - When granted to a user, that user can change items scoped by the Package, and set access permissions for the Package.
• Model Public Read check box - When selected, all users of the database can open the Model.
• Model Public Write check box - When selected, all users of the database can change all items in the Model.
Access permissions are not inherited, and you can have access permissions to a Package without having access permissions to its parent Package. The Access Permissions tab of a Model's or Package's Property Pages allow you to copy access permissions to child Packages, or copy a parent's access permissions.
For a summary of the access permissions required to perform primary tasks, see Access permissions required for performing tasks.
If you are using a configuration management tool to store your Models, Packages must be checked out to the Model before they can be changed. For more information about configuration management tool integration, see Overview of configuration management tool integration (CM tool integration).
| | • If you select an item to which you have only read access permissions, READ is displayed in the Modeler status bar. • Some item types cannot be scoped directly by a Package, these items are scoped through parent items. • You cannot change the access permissions of a Model that is checked in to a CM tool. |