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Details on system administration tasks such as setup and maintenance of databases and add-ons, user accounts, access rights, and migration and update procedures.
Rights and permissions
PLA 3.0 provides the features you need to control access to your data in a sophisticated and compliant manner. It combines role-based user rights with resource-based permissions, which enables you to exercise fine-grained control over who can perform particular tasks in a given context and which tasks are allowed with particular data.
Folder properties
Set up folder properties to restrict the content of folders to particular document types and to documents generated from particular document templates. Set the names of folders. Customize the identification key formats of folders and of the documents and templates they contain.
Document restrictions
Use document restrictions to enforce the use of templates and prevent users from creating documents that are not generated from templates. You can also set up restrictions such that folders can contain specific document types only.

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Details on documents and templates, the data editors and the Content editor of PLA 3.0.
Data analysis
Data analysis add-ons offer a wide range of capabilities, ranging from analytical methods over comprehensive analysis to statistical process control. PLA 3.0 also provides a set of add-ons that support and supplement data analysis add-ons.
Data import
Use data acquisition and data import add-ons to import external response values and observation data into PLA 3.0 for further processing and evaluation.
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Details on the deployment and installation of licensed PLA 3.0 versions.
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Administration
Details on system administration tasks such as setup and maintenance of databases and add-ons, user accounts, access rights, and migration and update procedures.
- Databases
  PLA 3.0 databases store all your data and also hold information such as user accounts, rights and permissions, signatures, and audit trail information. When logging in to PLA 3.0, users connect to a specific database, which sets their work environment for the session.
- Extensibility with add-ons
  PLA 3.0 consists of a framework and add-ons. The PLA 3.0 framework handles data as electronic documents. It provides the features you need to achieve regulatory compliance such as access control, data integrity, security, validation, and traceability.
- Rights and permissions
  PLA 3.0 provides the features you need to control access to your data in a sophisticated and compliant manner. It combines role-based user rights with resource-based permissions, which enables you to exercise fine-grained control over who can perform particular tasks in a given context and which tasks are allowed with particular data.
  - Account management
    Set up users, groups, and global roles. Use global roles to control who can perform particular database tasks such as setting up database policies or managing user sessions. Set up document roles and assign them to users and groups to define security contexts. Apply these security contexts to folders to control who can perform particular document tasks.
  - Folder properties
    Set up folder properties to restrict the content of folders to particular document types and to documents generated from particular document templates. Set the names of folders. Customize the identification key formats of folders and of the documents and templates they contain.
    - Document key formats
      PLA 3.0 identifies documents, templates, and folders by unique keys. You can adapt the formats used to generate these identification keys according to your requirements.
    - Document restrictions
      Use document restrictions to enforce the use of templates and prevent users from creating documents that are not generated from templates. You can also set up restrictions such that folders can contain specific document types only.
      - Configure template restrictions
        By default, folders are not restricted to a specific template. You can change the default setup such that users can only work with particular templates in a folder.
      - Configure document type-specific templates
        By default, folders are not restricted to specific document types. You can change the default setup such that users can only work with templates of particular document types. Document type-specific restrictions override template restrictions.
  - Directory service
    Use secure LDAP (LDAPS) directory services, such as Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services, to authenticate PLA 3.0 users. You map your PLA 3.0 groups, which have PLA 3.0 roles assigned, to user groups set up on a directory server. You cannot directly assign directory users to PLA 3.0 groups.
- Update, upgrade, and migrate
  Find details on how to update, upgrade or migrate your environment to work with the latest version of PLA 3.0.
Regulatory compliance
PLA 3.0 supports you in achieving compliance with regulations such as ISPE GAMP^® 5 and 21 CFR Part 11. It also provides options to validate PLA 3.0 in your environment.
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Document restrictions

Use document restrictions to enforce the use of templates and prevent users from creating documents that are not generated from templates. You can also set up restrictions such that folders can contain specific document types only.

Note: To set up document restrictions, you require the Edit folder properties document permission. To access the Document restrictions tab, you require the Read folder properties document permission.

Navigation: File > Folder properties > Document restrictions

The central dialog for creating new documents in PLA 3.0 is the Create a new document dialog. Users can employ this dialog to create new documents from scratch or select one of the available templates. By setting up document restrictions you configure the content of the Create a new document dialog to display only a subset of the available documents and templates.

You set up document restrictions for individual folders. When selecting a folder, you can set up document restrictions on template level and document type level.

Set up restrictions on template level to enforce the use of templates in the selected folder without restricting the folder to a specific document type. You can use this setup in operation mode, where functional administrators develop methods in a template folder, and operators use the methods predefined in the templates without changing the setup.

For details, see the Configure template restrictions topic.
Set up restrictions on document type level if you want to allow users to create documents of a specific type only. You can further restrict this option by enforcing the use of templates when creating documents of this type.

For details, see the Configure document type-specific templates topic.

Important: Document type-specific restrictions override template restrictions.