Visibility of Folders and Folder Items

The User Portal lists only a subset of the folders and folder items. You can use the Show options to display different groups of folder items.

The options are as follows:

All — Shows all public folders and items. This is controlled by the Public setting of an item.

Important:

Note that the Public setting controls only whether the item is displayed in the User Portal. It does not otherwise control access.
Personal — Shows all public items that you own. This is controlled by the Owner setting of an item. Note that, by default, the owner of an item is the Caché user who created it.
Shared — Shows all public items that you do not own and that have assigned resources to which you have permission. This is controlled by the Resource setting of an item.
Public — Shows all public items that you do not own and do not have assigned resources.

The following table lists all the possible variations and indicates the visibility of the folders and folder items, depending on what you choose for Show:

Marked as Public?	Owner	Resource	User Portal Displays Item to You?
Yes	You	Any	Yes (if you select All or Personal)
	Someone else	No resource	Yes (if you select All or Public)
		Resource that is available to you	Yes (if you select All or Shared)
		Other resource	No
No	Any	Any	No (but the item might be available via the Menu, depending on its owner and resource)

Similarly, to define an item so that only you can see it, do the following:

Set yourself as the Owner.
Specify a Resource that is available only to you.
Optionally select Public to display the item in the User Portal.

For background information, see “Security in DeepSee,” in the previous chapter.