Granular admin roles in Document Management

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title: Granular admin roles in Document Management
description: Granular admin roles enable organizations to assign specific administrative permissions based on functional responsibilities, replacing broad admin access with targeted role assignments. Use the new admin roles to grant users administrative capability without using the admin role.
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# Granular admin roles in Document Management

Granular admin roles enable organizations to assign specific administrative permissions based on functional responsibilities, replacing broad admin access with targeted role assignments. Use the new admin roles to grant users administrative capability without using the admin role.

|Role name|Functionality|Description|
|---------|-------------|-----------|
|document\_admin|PDF generation, document conversion and document viewer OOB plugins|Provides access for managing system properties, security ACLs, and security ACL roles|
|platform\_document\_management\_admin|Documents, references, versions, lists and list entry tables|Provides access to perform Create, Read, Update and Delete operations|

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