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title: Permissions
slug: user-guide-10x/permissions
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createdAt: 2025-06-18T11:01:36.091Z
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Swimlane uses a role-based permissions model. We designed permissions with flexibility in mind which allows for a flexible administration of roles, groups, users and their permissions. This also allows for synchronization between Swimlane and customer systems like LDAP and Active Directory.

Administrators can set permissions for:

- **Roles:** Functional roles associated with users and groups that hold permissions to objects.
- **Users:** Users defined in Swimlane or imported to Swimlane from Active Directory.
- **Groups:** Collections of users and other groups.
- **Swimlane Objects:** Secured features of Swimlane, such as records, applications, applets, records, reports, workspaces, and dashboards.

Additionally for Swimlane objects, you set the level of access for users, roles, and groups such as:

- **Create**
- **Read**
- **Modify**
- **Update**
- **Delete**
- **Export**
- **Lock** (for records)
- **Restrict** (for records)