An Enterprise PDM vault has a special Admin user account, with administrative privileges that no other user accounts have.
The Admin user account:
- Is the only active user account in a new vault.
- Cannot be disabled, renamed, or deleted in a vault.
- Is the only user that can search and view files that are currently in another user's private state (i.e. added files that have never been checked in).
- Can delete a file that is checked out by another user or in another vault view.
- Can check in (or undo check out) a file that is checked out by another user.
- Has access to all search favorites.
To make it easier to troubleshoot permissions issues:
- Assign the Admin user full permissions to all folders and states in a vault.
- Do not include the Admin user in any group.
Changing the Admin password in
the Enterprise PDM administration tool changes
(and sets) the vault-specific properties for the admin login in
the archive server configuration.