SOLIDWORKS PDM permissions control
the SOLIDWORKS PDM
File Explorer operations you can perform on files and folders.
Your SOLIDWORKS PDM administrator can grant or deny permissions to individual users or groups. Permissions can be global or specific to folders or files.
SOLIDWORKS PDM has the following permission types:
- Administrative permissions control access to Administration tool
features, such as managing users, data cards, and workflows. Even if you have no
administrative permissions, you can use the Administration tool to change passwords and
user settings. (see the SOLIDWORKS PDM Administration Tool Help).
- Folder permissions control access to individual folders in the
vault. For example, an administrator can grant engineers full write access (check out,
delete, and so on) to an Engineering folder but grant only read access to a Marketing
folder.
- File permissions control access to specific files. Users granted
the required right by the administrator can
specify
permissions from the File Permissions tab of the
Properties dialog box to control whether other
users can see individual files.
- State permissions control access to files in a given workflow
state. To check out a file in a given state, you need both folder and state
permissions.
- Transition permissions determine who can move
files from one workflow state to another.
SOLIDWORKS PDM File Explorer
Help assumes that
you have full permissions. If you do not have access to a command that you
need, contact your administrator. See SOLIDWORKS PDM Administration Tool Help for details on permissions.