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Chapter 9 Promotion Rights : Promotion Rights

Promotion Rights
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.
Security Permissions Required
To obtain promotion rights, you must have security access to the object in question. There are two factors that determine if you have access:
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.
Obtaining Promotion Rights
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.
Releasing Promotion Rights
Promotion rights are released automatically after the promotion of an object to the source system. However, you can release rights to an object without promoting it. Refer to Chapter 13, Management of Promotion Rights for more information.
Promotion Rights and TIBCO Object Service Broker Tools
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.
Other tools, such as the clear and copy tools, are not affected by promotion rights and permit another user to clear and copy tables and object definitions.
Obstacles to Obtaining Promotion Rights
There are several conditions that can prevent you from obtaining the promotion rights to an object. They are:
Your user ID is not set up with promotion capabilities. Check the BORROWER parameter in your user profile and call your system administrator.
When working with group rights, someone else from another group to which you do not belong has the promotion rights to that object.
If your system administrator set up a non-restrictive promotion environment, you can modify objects without promotion rights; however, you should do so in consultation with the holder of the promotion rights.
Promotion Rights of Objects
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:

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