Rules that Configure Ownership

You can configure which access roles are required for users to transfer ownership. You can define the access roles required for transferring the individual components of ownership, person, organization, and collaborative space, independently of each other, or you can restrict all ownership transfers to the person who is responsible for the content.

Within a collaborative space, users work as a single team. Any member of a collaborative space has the same credentials as any other user assigned to the same collaborative space with the same role. Content is owned by the organization and collaboration space defined by the active credentials of the user that created who content. That content can be modified by any other user with the required access level who is assigned to the collaborative space and organization that own the content.

Any content that does not have a Owner attribute is not intended to be transferrable. Consequently, transfer of ownership does not apply to Port, Connection and Instance as they are not visible by either searching or exploring.

Ownership cannot be transferred by non-administrative access roles if any of these conditions exist:

  • The content is locked by someone else
  • The user is not assigned to the collaborative space and organization that own the content. For more information, see Consider User's Organization Assignment on Content Category.
  • The user has no authority to access it:
    • Resource content cannot be transferred to an Author, Contributor, or Reader
    • Definition content cannot be transferred to a Contributor or Reader
    • Experiment content cannot be transferred to a Reader.

Transfer of ownership is defined by a user's access role regardless of the current maturity state of the content.


In this section:

Set Access Roles that can Change the Owner of Content
Set Access Roles that can Change the Organization that Owns Content
Set Access Roles that can Change the Collaborative Space that Owns Content
Only Owner of the Content Can Transfer Ownership
The Owner of the Content After Transfer must Have Creation Credentials for Same Content Category