About security inheritance when adding an asset

When initially added, an asset inherits the security settings of the container in which it is placed (and a container inherits the security settings of the container in which it is placed). That is, children inherit security permissions from their parents. You can assign explicit permissions to an asset, overriding the inherited permissions. You can also break the chain of inheritance for an asset so that it will not inherit permissions. For more information on inheritance see the

FactoryTalk Security Help

which is accessible from the

Security Settings

dialog box.

If you move an asset, it retains its security settings. If you copy an asset, the copy does not retain the security settings of the original. Rather, the copy inherits the settings from its new parent container.