AEM Asset Security Group & Folder Permissions

[PrithviCh]

Hello,

I am new to Adobe Experience Manager Assets, and looking to understand Security Groups & Folder Permission in Adobe AEM Assets.

I have:

• a user group called Authors which has read/write permissions to a folder called Creatives. 
• a user group called Reviewer which has read permissions to the folder called Creatives.

Doubts:

• If I give the Author user's Viewer Permission to the Creative folder will they still be able to read/write content in that folder?
• If I give the Reviewer user's Editor/Owner Permission to the Creative folder will they be able to write/edit content in that folder?
• If I give the people in the Author group Viewer Permission to a folder will they still have edit access to it? 

Please help me understand how these work.

[diksha_mishra · Accepted solution]

@PrithviCh  let me simplify this for you:

1. You have to create desired groups and assign node permissions for folders: 

Folder path	Group	Read	Write
content/dam/creatives	Authors	X	X
content/dam/creatives	Reviewers	X

2. Once these groups are created, you need to assign users to groups or groups to users. That means, you don’t have to manually assign node permissions like R/W/D etc. for each user.

Example:

Users	Group	Read	Write
A	Authors	X	X
B	Reviewers	X
C	Authors, Reviewers	X	X

3. You can assign multiple groups to users and they will automatically inherit Group permissions.

4. Whenever you decide to modify permissions, work on group first and later assign users.

5. You can get more info here: https://experienceleague.adobe.com/en/docs/experience-manager-65/content/security/security 

Hope this helps.

[PrithviCh]

Thank you @diksha_mishra. When does folder permissions (Editor/Owner/Viewer) come into effect?