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To help reduce the amount of permissions configuration required, catalog administrators can specify whether catalogs inherit permissions from their parent catalog. When you select the Additionally, grant permissions as defined in parent setting for a catalog it is visible to the same users as its parent catalog. Changing the parent settings automatically affects all of the children.
You can also set permissions for catalogs individually, which are enforced in addition to those inherited from a parent catalog. The inherited permissions and the explicit permissions added together determine who can see a specific catalog.
Even if inherited permissions are not used, anyone who can see a catalog is also granted read-only access to the direct parent catalogs up the hierarchy. Otherwise, a user could not navigate down to the sub-catalog they have explicit permission to use.
PeopleFluent recommends always setting permissions on the first level catalogs. Sub-catalogs can then inherit permissions without any other permission setting required. Of course, if you want to limit access to specific sub-catalogs, you can set explicit permissions as needed and not inherit parent catalog permissions.
The permissions criteria for individual catalogs are normally interpreted using OR logic, although you may change this to AND in the Permissions Selector.
For content organized for general browsing (using a structure meaningful to the users), select the Additionally, grant permissions as defined in parent check box for all sub-catalogs under the parent catalog.
For content organized by restricted groups, where some of the sub-catalogs are to be visible to only a specific group, clear the Additionally, grant permissions as defined in parent check box for those specific catalogs, and configure the required permissions for each.
Permissions work in the same way for catalogs that allow users to access them without logging in.
Using permissions you can create catalogs hidden from learners, to use as staging areas for creating new catalogs or updating the course listings in existing catalogs, before releasing them for general viewing. When courses in a hidden catalog are ready to be published for learners, you can reassign them to the regular catalogs that learners can view.
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