Cascading Permission changes - additive or replacing?

(Douglas (@finnatic at @waikato)) #1

We have a folder of ~2400 assets, where the assets underneath have a variety of permissions applied.

I’m looking to grant a new group admin access over the whole folder, but have paused as I’m not entirely sure if cascading permission changes in Matrix is an additive change - that is to say the new permissions are simply added, not affecting existing permissions - or replace the existing permissions.

The manuals don’t seem to mention this, and we have systems which have both.

(Aleks Bochniak) #2

Try testing it a dev area

(Bart Banda) #3

It’s only additive, it won’t overwrite any existing ones. Likewise, it won’t cascade any existing ones unless you tick the “Manually Cascade Permissions” option.

#4

On some of our sites We utilise groups for each section of our site ( then link in the groups) this saves having to add and delete groups via the pernissions screen. It’s hard though when permissions are very specific, and when it’s quite a few assets.