Application Permissions

Assigning application level permissions (such as ‘Manage Users’) to users or groups.
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An Application Permission is a permission to perform an action that is not associated with a single Document or is unrelated to Documents. Application Permissions can be granted to Users or Groups.

In order to grant Application Permissions to yourself or to other Users/Groups you must have the Manage Users or Administrator Application Permissions. If you have one of these permissions then you can access the Application Permissions screen from the main menu:

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Application Permissions

Application Permission Types

The following is the list of different application permissions that can be granted to users/groups.

Permission Description
Administrator Full administrator rights to access and manage all data, documents and screens, i.e. everything.
Annotations Create and view annotations in query results.
Change Owner Change the ownership of a document or folder to another user.
Data - Delete Delete streams.
Data - Export Download/export streams from a feed.
Data - Import Upload stream data into a feed.
Data - View View stream data (e.g. in the Data Viewer or a Dashboard text pane).
Data - View With Pipeline View data in a Dashboard text pane that uses a pipeline.
Download Search Results Download search result data on a Dashboard.
Export Configuration Export Content (i.e. documents, that you have permission to view) to a file.
Import Configuration Import Content from a file.
Manage API Keys Access the API Keys screen to view, create, edit, delete the user’s own API keys. ‘Manage Users’ permission is also required to manage other users API keys
Manage Cache Access the Caches screen to view and clear system caches.
Manage DB Access the Monitoring -> Database Tables screen to view the state of the tables in the database.
Manage Index Shards Access the Shards sub-tab on an Index document.
Manage Jobs Access the Jobs screen to manage Stroom’s background jobs.
Manage Nodes Access the Nodes screen to view the nodes the cluster and manage their priority and enabled states.
Manage Policies Access the Data Retention screen to manage data retention rules.
Manage Processors Access the Processors tab and manage the processors/filters used to process stream data through pipelines.
Manage Properties Access to the Properties to manage the system configuration.
Manage Tasks Access the Server Tasks screen to view/stop tasks running on the nodes.
Manage Users Access the screens to manage users, groups, document/application permissions. Also gives the user the ability to manage API keys for other users.
Manage Volumes Access the Data Volumes and Index Volumes screens to create/edit/delete the index/data volumes used for Lucene indexing and the stream store.
Pipeline Stepping Step data through a pipeline using the Stepper.
View System Information Use the System Information API. This is used by the administrators for viewing some of the internal working of Stroom to aid in debugging issues.
Last modified October 20, 2026: Merge pull request #144 from gchq/add-7.14-rel-notes (2c6fb22)