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User Roles, Access, and Security

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Permissions and Security	Power	Contributor	Reviewer
Model Access	Access to all models, shared views, and reports	Access to assigned models, shared views, and shared reports	Access to assigned models, shared views, and shared reports
Group Security	Group security is not applicable. Power User does not have to belong to a group to assign a group to any artifact. However, the group must belong to the model.	Group security is applicable. Contributor can assign or revoke groups on any artifact Note: Contributor must belong the Group in order to assign or revoke Group access, and the Group must belong to the Model as well.	Group security is applicable. Reviewer cannot assign or revoke groups on any artifact
Data Level Security	Data‐level security is not applicable	Data‐level security is not applicable	Data‐level security is applicable
View Access and Security	Has access to the default view for all models Can create a view and share it by assigning to any group Can create a personal view Can modify any shared or personal view, and assign or revoke any group Can modify any personal view Can delete any personal or shared view Will see a list of all groups in the Property mode	Has access to the default view of all assigned models Can create a view and share it by assigning to any group the user belongs to Can create a personal view Can assign or revoke any group the user belongs to Can modify any personal view Can delete any personal or shared view that the user belongs to Will see only the list of groups the user belongs to in the Property mode	Has access to the default view of all assigned models Cannot create a view and share it by assigning to any group the user belongs to Can create a personal view Can modify personal views(those that belong to the Reviewer user only) Can delete a personal view Will not see any groups in the Property mode(Reviewers will not see their own Group in Property mode)
View Dimension Security	Dimension Security is not applicable	Dimension Security is not applicable	Dimension Security is applicable. If multiple subtrees are specified as filter, the user will see the root of the first subtree in the default view User will see multiple subtrees in the Dimension Member Tree dropdown If the user tries to access a view that contains members filtered by dimension security, the Reviewer user will see only those members in which he or she has access to If a user originally created a view, and then dimension security is applied, the user will be able to access the view and see the members he or she has access to
Report Access and Security	Has access to all reports Can create a report and share it by assigning to any group Can create a personal report Can modify any shared or personal report and assign or revoke any group Can modify any personal report Can delete any personal or shared report Will see a list of all groups in the Property mode	Has access to all shared or personal reports Can create a report and share it by assigning to any group the user belongs to Can create a personal report Can modify any shared or personal report and assign or revoke any group the user belongs to Can modify any personal report Can delete any personal or shared report Will see only the list of groups, the user belongs to in the Property mode	Has access to all shared reports Cannot create or modify or delete a report
Report Dimension Security	Dimension Security is not applicable	Dimension Security is not applicable	Dimension Security is applied

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