Blackout Permissions

Securing Manual Redactions

  • The manual redactions experience can be secured by setting workspace permissions
  • By default, only system administrators have permission to perform manual redactions, highlights, and other actions on PDFs, spreadsheets, and images

How to Secure Markups

  1. Log into Relativity as a System Administrator
  2. Navigate to the workspace where permissions need to be secured
  3. Navigate to Workspace Admin | Workspace Details
  4. Click Manage Workspace Permissions under System Settings
  5. Click the Edit Permissions button next to the group you want to modify
  6. Scroll to the section labeled Blackout
  7. Choose the required permissions

What can be secured

PermissionDescription
Place/Edit Manual Spreadsheet RedactionGrants the group access to perform the following options on spreadsheets:
  • The redaction sub right-click menu
  • Ability to redact charts, comments, headers, footers, objects, and sheet names.
Place/Edit Spreadsheet Manual HighlightGrants the group access to the highlight options in the right-click menu on spreadsheets
Clear Spreadsheet MarkupsGrants the group access to the Clear Markup Set button on the Blackout toolbar at the bottom of the viewer
View Image Quality Control PanelGrants the group access to view the image Quality Control Menu
Accept/Reject Spreadsheet Quality Control EntriesGrants the group access to the Accept and Reject buttons on the Blackout Markup Review Pane for spreadsheets
Input Custom Spreadsheet Redaction TextGrants the group access to the option for supplying their own custom text when placing a Text Redaction in spreadsheets
Place/Edit Manual PDF RedactionGrants the group access to perform the following actions on PDFs:
  • Drawing redactions with the top Blackout toolbar
  • Redacting annotations and attachments with the PDF markup reviewer bottom pane
  • Toggle visibility on the top redaction toolbar
  • Accept and reject markups on the PDF markup reviewer bottom pane
Place/Edit Manual PDF HighlightGrants the group access to draw highlights in PDFs with the top Blackout toolbar
Clear PDF MarkupsGrants the group access to the Clear Markup Set button on the Blackout toolbar at the bottom of the viewer in PDFs
Accept/Reject PDF Quality Control EntriesGrants the group access to the Accept and Reject buttons on the Blackout Markup Review Pane for PDFs
Accept/Reject Image Quality Control EntriesGrants the group access to the Accept and Reject buttons on the Blackout Markup Review Pane for Images
Blackout AnalyzeShow or hide the Blackout Analyze Tab
Lock/Unlock Native DocumentsGrants the group access to the lock and unlock individual document button in the excel viewer when a document is locked for production
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