Documents are instances of the document class. When first created they obtain initial security from the Default Instance Security ACL of their class.
Documents have the following security characteristics:
For security information about compound documents, see Compound document security.
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All access rights listed in the columns to the right and:
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A document acquires its initial default security from its document class and, if the application's site preference allows it, the application user can modify the security. By default, the user who creates a document gets Full Control (also called Owner Control).
Modifying document class security has no effect on the security of existing documents.
The document's content elements are not independently securable but can only be accessed through their document version. In effect, a document's content has the same security as the document. In Administration Console for Content Platform Engine, a document's security information appears on the Security page of its property sheet.
To navigate to a document by browsing, a user must have access to all folders and subfolders in the path to the document. By contrast, a search template checks only the document's security even if the search specifies a folder. This means that searches might allow a user to find documents that could not be found through browsing.