Access groups determine the kind of access you have, as a group member, to the content items in the categories and subcategories created for an interactive service. Your system administrator creates the access groups, and can make you a member of one or more groups according to the content items you work with and the kind of access you need to do your work.

As a member of an access group, you have one of the following privileges for the content items in the categories associated with the access group:

Privileges to content	Definition
None	Grants you no access to the content items in the categories and subcategories associated with the group
Read on-line	Grants you read-only access to the on-line content items in the categories and subcategories associated with the access group. "The attribute status determines availability for display and matching" explains the on-line status attribute for a content item.
Read	Grants you read-only access to the content items in the category and subcategories associated with the access group, regardless of the status of the items.
Write	Lets you add new content items to, modify existing items in, and schedule the reclassification of the items in, the category and subcategories associated with the group.
Approve	Lets you change the status of a content item, and schedule a status change in the future. Approval access also includes the Write access privileges.

The system administrator can also use access groups to grant members privileges to the content items in subcategories. The privileges granted to subcategories override the privileges granted to their respective parent categories.