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Security Rights - Editing/Writing Metadata

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Updated March 12, 2015

asked on March 12, 2015

I'm having issues assigning a user the Rights to edit metadata for documents. The user in question has Access Rights for "Write Metadata". The Field & Template Security have been set for the user to allow "Read/Create/Edit/Modify Field". The user also has full feature rights (Although I was under the assumption these have nothing to do with metadata rights).

The only way that I can allow the user to modify metadata is assign the "Manage Trustees" Assigned Privilege, which does not seem right. Is there something wrong here? I'm confused as to how allowing a user to Administer Users and Groups gives him the ability to edit metadata, however all my other attempts to allow the user to edit result in a read only template.

There are no "Deny" options checked for any template, field, or access rights.

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replied on March 12, 2015

Hey Justin,

I would like you to check the effective rights for this User on that document. Do this with the Manage Trustees not provided.

I suspect that the Write Metadata box will be unticked. If that is the case, then your user will be unable to apply a template, etc.

If it is unticked, and you are Allowing him to Write Metadata, what you will need to check is which groups he belongs to (including the Everyone group) and see if you are providing a Deny to Write Metadata to any groups he belongs to.

If he has a deny from a group and an allow as the user, the deny will supercede and he will be unable to Write Metadata.

Thanks,

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replied on March 12, 2015

Nathan,

It looks like you're right, the user does not have the Write Metadata" right when viewing effective rights. The solution was that the everyone user was set at "Only allow read-only access".

Cant believe I missed that, thanks for the help.

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