Access rights

Access rights control who can do what to each item of data in your Rational® DOORS® database. Rational DOORS provides five access rights: read, modify, create, delete, and admin.
Table 1. Access rights in Rational DOORS
Access right Allows you to
Read (R) See the data. If you can see a project, folder, or module in the database explorer, you have read access to it.
Modify (M) Edit the existing data. For example, if you have modify access to an object, you can edit the object and change the values of its attributes.
Create (C) Create data one level down in the database tree:
  • If you have create access to a project or folder, you can create new projects, folders, and modules in the project or folder
  • If you have create access to a module, you can create new top-level objects in the module
  • If you have create access to an object, you can create new objects one level below the object
Delete (D) Delete the data.
Admin (A) Change the access rights for the data.

Full access and no access

If you have full access to something, it means that you have all five access rights to it. Full access is just a shorthand for the five access rights.

If you have no access to a project, folder or module, you cannot see it, so you do not even know it exists.

If you have read access to a module, it does not mean that you can see all the data in the module. You might have no access to some of the objects or attributes in the module. When you have no access to an object or attribute, you see Read Locked Data instead of the object or attribute.


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