This chapter explains the concept of promotion rights. It provides information on how to obtain them as you develop applications and discusses how the promotion rights that you hold affect other application developers.
The security permissions for each rules library dictate the users or groups who can access that library. You, or the group you belong to, must have security permission to access the library containing the rule you want to modify. Without security permission, you cannot gain access. To obtain security permission to a library, contact your system administrator. For more information about security permissions, refer to
TIBCO Object Service Broker Managing Security.
If you have promotion capabilities set up for your user ID, you automatically obtain the promotion rights to an object when you create or modify it (except for objects created with the Report Generator). Promotion rights are also referred to as
borrower’s rights.
In a restrictive environment, promotion rights are enforced by the tools you use to define objects. Promotion rights are also enforced by the tools you use to edit data—the editors for rules, tables, and occurrences. Provided these tools are used to create and edit an object, no one else can modify the object to which you have rights. Rules are the only exception. For more information on rules and promotion rights, refer to
Obtaining Promotion Rights to a Rule.
The way you obtain promotion rights differs slightly depending upon the nature of the object you intend to promote. This chapter contains sections describing how to obtain promotion rights on: