Susan is a new student, which needs to be able consult and submit items to the "Thesis" collection. John, a repository administrator, has already created a group "Students" which has READ and WRITE privileges on the thesis collection. In order to give Susan the permissions she requires, John adds her user to the "Students" group. Because permissions in DSpace are cascaded from groups to users, Susan's new policier are applied immediately.

Therefore, Susan can now access all new and existing items in the "Thesis" collection. Also, she now has permission to submit items to that collection.