Components of user rights

Domains

Purpose of domains

The purpose of domains is to set the upper limit of user rights for their constituent user groups. Domains do this in two ways:

Define access to content sources, destinations, and folders
Grant resource creation rights

Interaction between domains

Domains are not visible to each other. User rights cannot cross over domains: a user group in one domain cannot see or access resources belonging solely to another domain. This limits the rights of user groups, because each user group belongs to one and only one domain.

Where to set domain boundaries

A domain is advisable whenever there are two or more collections of user groups that need to be completely separate and invisible to each other. Even if these collections of user groups share the same physical resources, such as servers or networks, ContentDirector can maintain them in separate virtual spaces through separate domains.

Example use of domains

A typical use of domains is for a content distribution network (CDN) that offers services to several companies. Companies A, B, and C each have their own domain. Even though they share the same physical network, each company's information in ContentDirector is secure from the other companies.