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title: "Relative Permissions"
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# Relative Permissions

## Bands Viewer Permissions:

Bands Viewer access can be determined by selecting exact or relative bands permissions. In order to utilize relative permissions, **<Own Value>** and **<Value of Direct Reports>** are available to be selected in the custom “Band Viewer” Permissions.

### Relative Permission Selections

The below relative permission choices are values derived by a band viewer’s and their direct report’s current matching to bands within the live band set. **This means that changes to live band set could impact the visibility an individual has to a particular set of bands.**

* **<Own Value>** refers to a function, ladder, and ladder rank for a band viewer’s own band.
* **<Value of Direct Reports>** refers to the functions, ladders, and ladder ranks for a band viewer’s direct reports.

By creating custom band permissions off of these relative values, an admin can permission selective and granular bands access for each manager without significant time invested.

### Most frequent use cases of relative permissions:

Below are examples of the configurations most frequently employed by customers to give their managers selective access to the relevant bands.

* **View all ladders that contain a direct report, excluding my own ladder**
  * This configuration is common as it allows viewers to see the the potential job trajectory for their reports while also limiting their visibility to their own information

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* **View entire ladders for all ladders that contain a direct report and see my own ladder for all ladder ranks beneath my own**
  * This configuration is common as it allows viewers to see the the potential job trajectory for their reports while have visibility into their own ladder but not their band.
  * This is frequently used for managers of manager who may need to view bands within their own ladder

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* **View entire ladders for all ladders that contain a direct report and see my own ladder for all ladder ranks beneath my own if I have a report in my ladder**
  * This configuration is common as it allows band viewers to see the potential job trajectory for their reports but gates access to their own ladder if they have a report in their ladder.

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