# Managing permissions

You use permissions and permission sets to manage access to Tonic Textual features and functions.

## Learn about permission sets and permissions

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>About permissions and permission sets</strong><br><br>Learn how user access works in Textual.</td><td><a href="textual-permissions/about-permissions-and-permission-sets">about-permissions-and-permission-sets</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Built-in permission sets and permissions</strong><br><br>Lists of the global and dataset permission sets and permissions that come with Textual.</td><td><a href="textual-permissions/permissions-built-in">permissions-built-in</a></td></tr><tr><td></td><td></td></tr></tbody></table>

## View and configure permission sets

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>View the permission sets</strong><br><br>View the lists of global and dataset sets.</td><td><a href="textual-permissions/permission-sets-view">permission-sets-view</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Configure custom permission sets</strong><br><br>Create and assign permissions to your own global and dataset sets.</td><td><a href="textual-permissions/permission-sets-custom">permission-sets-custom</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Select default permission sets</strong><br><br>Select the global permission set for all users, and the permission sets for database creators.</td><td><a href="textual-permissions/default-permission-sets">default-permission-sets</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

## Assign global permission sets

<table data-view="cards"><thead><tr><th></th><th data-hidden data-card-target data-type="content-ref"></th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><strong>Grant access to global permission sets</strong><br><br>Assign users and groups to global permission sets.</td><td><a href="textual-permissions/global-permission-sets-access">global-permission-sets-access</a></td></tr><tr><td><strong>Set the initial admin access</strong><br><br>Use an environment variable to grant the initial access to all global permissions.</td><td><a href="textual-permissions/permissions-initial-admin-access">permissions-initial-admin-access</a></td></tr></tbody></table>
