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Articles in this section may be useful to technical staff maintaining the infrastructure of the DMS.
Articles in this section provide answers to frequently asked questions on the DMS appliance.
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DMS Ideas Portal
Perspective Platform Resource Centre
Control over who can access/ edit/change documents is controlled by the use of Contact Roles. In addition to the standard platform roles which will likely be used by a platform licensees staff, you can create your own roles which you can apply to contacts who will need to access documents from the system.
Almirah Standard Roles
There are two main roles associated with maintaining Almirah;
Almirah Document Management - System Administrator
Users with this role have access to an additional menu drop-down - Administration where they can maintain core structures of the system.Almirah Document Management - User
Provides basic access to perform standard system functions within the DMS
Standard Platform Roles
Throughout the organisation, there will be staff who require access to different types of staff e.g.
Custom Platform Roles
It is likely you will need people external to the business to have access to certain documents within the portal so you can add your own roles; e.g. External Drafting Companies, Councils.
This is done on the platform, and you have the role that will allow you to create Contact Roles.
To control what type of access each role has to either Document Structures or Documents refer to;
Almirah Security Permissions Overview