Authorities

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This screen allows you manage the Authorities. These are used to define the authorities that are assigned to roles. See also Concepts|Users for background information.

Confirm Delete

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When you press the Delete button on the Administration|Authorities screen, a confirmation window will appear.

If you press OK to confirm the delete, then, if the Authority is not in use, it will be deleted. Otherwise an error window will appear with the text like:

Failed to delete object with security.archetypeAuthority.1.0:.......

Click OK to dismiss the error window.

Create/Edit/View

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This screen allows you to create, edit and view Authorities. Normally you should never need to change these.

The fields are as follows:
Authority Name - the name of the authority
Description - use this to clarify the purpose of the authority
Service Name - must be set to Archetype Service
Method Name - can be one of save, new or remove
Archetype Name - the name of the archetype