Traversing

Why users see content they can’t access

Traversing allows administrators to enable users to see the content structure of BIMcloud Manager, without necessarily having access to all of its items.

Traversing ensures that users will be always able to access all content items for which they have View item permission - even if they do not have permission to access the parent folders.

In this case, the parent folders (which would otherwise be hidden from the user) are visible in the Navigator and the user can traverse through them, but no additional information will be displayed about that parent folder.

If access to the content item is revoked from the user, these traversed parent folders will automatically disappear too.

Note:

  • Traversing works for all content types, even those without multi-level hierarchies (Roles and users).

  • Traversing does NOT work when subscribing to change notifications on BIMcloud folders. If you can see a folder only because of traversing, you cannot subscribe to that folder - you must have explicit view permissions.

Example:

Hierarchy in Navigator:

  • Folder A

    • Project A

You have View item permission for Project A, but you do not have any permission for Folder A.

Folder A will be still visible in the Navigator to allow traversing through it, but no additional information will be displayed about Folder A.

You can subscribe to changes on Project A, but you cannot subscribe to changes on Folder A.