Associating Access Groups with Data

The individual users in an access group are provided access to data by associating the access group with catalogs or categories of data.

Be aware of the following user interface behaviors related to associating an access group with a catalog or category:

• Access inheritance. When you associate an access group with a category, its descendant groups are also associated with the category. However, this inheritance is implemented at run time, and is not represented in the database. As such, the descendant access groups associated with the category are not displayed in the list of groups associated with the category.

• Cascade button. Clicking the Cascade button provides the given access group with visibility to all of the child categories of the current catalog or category. Clicking this button repeatedly has no effect. You must manually disassociate the group from the child categories to undo the access cascade.

• Private catalog. If you specify a catalog to be private, its categories are all set as private. If you remove privacy at the catalog level, the categories retain privacy. You must then set or remove category privacy individually.