The FCS offers flexible permission assignment. Each piece of
information ("fact") can be provided with read and/or edit permissions.
Permissions are either assigned to user groups or to individual
persons. There are no limits to the number of groups or to the number
of group members.
concrete examples:
co-operation on an article
If co-operation on an article is desired, two or more authors are
involved. In the early stages, read and edit permissions are limited to
the authors. After the article has been finished, read permissions may
be extended to other groups in order to get feedback or approval.
However, edit permissions are still limited to the authors. Eventually,
the final version of the article is made available to all users of the
platform without any exceptions by extending read permissions.
sensible data
A company operates a platform for internal knowledge exchange. In most
cases, it is desirable that employees communicate across departments.
On other occasions, it makes sense to limit permissions for specific
information to certain groups or departments. A typical example would
be the accounting department. Accounting usually deals with sensible
data which is only intended for user groups or departments such as
"accounting" or "management". In exceptional cases, it has to be
possible to provide selected individuals with read or edit permissions.
