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Rights Management
General Concept
Newton’s User/Access Rights system is flexible and granular, consisting of Rights, Roles, Groups, and Collections to define access to specific Newton software functions or areas.
The general structure is RIGHTS → ROLE → GROUP, where users cannot be assigned rights directly; instead, a role assignment is required.
A user without an assigned role can log in to Newton, but they won’t see any content.
Role
A set of Rights defines a Role.
The “System Administrator” Role has all Rights, including the Right to change Roles, Groups, and Collections.
Since roles cannot be used to invite new users, we added a group called “Newton Administrator” with the role “System Administrator”.
Group
A set of Roles defines a Group.
Collection
Used to grant access to a set of:
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