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title: Manage document permissions
description: Use the Manage permissions action on a document in the Documents panel to control who can read or write to the document.
locale: en-US
canonical_url: https://www.servicenow.com/docs/r/australia/governance-risk-compliance/audit-management/manage-document-permissions.html
release: australia
product: Audit Management
classification: audit-management
topic_type: concept
last_updated: "2026-08-18"
reading_time_minutes: 1
breadcrumb: [Using Document Management System in Audit Workspace, Audit Workspace Overview, Audit Management, Governance, Risk, and Compliance]
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# Manage document permissions

Use the **Manage permissions** action on a document in the Documents panel to control who can read or write to the document.

The **Manage permissions** action on a document lets you grant read or write access in two ways:

-   Role-based permission: Grant read or write access to every user who has a specified role. For example, granting write access to a role held by the audit owners lets all the users with that role edit the document.
-   User-based permission: Grant read or write access to a specific user, a group, or an existing condition that you select.

A user can be granted access through more than one permission, for example, through both a role-based permission and a user-based permission. In this case, the user receives the higher level of access.

**Note:** Document permissions configured from **Manage permissions** are separate from the file access permission records described in [File access permissions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/audit-management/file-access-permissions.md), which apply to cloud files linked through the Microsoft integration rather than to documents in the Documents panel.

For the steps to configure document permissions, see [Set document permissions](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/governance-risk-compliance/audit-management/set-document-permissions.md).