Permission.PolicyName property (Office)

Gets the name of the permissions policy applied to the active document. Read-only.

Syntax

expression.PolicyName

expression A variable that represents a Permission object.

Remarks

Microsoft Office Information Rights Management supports the use of administrative permission policies that list users and groups and their document permissions. The PolicyName property returns the name of the policy applied to the active document, or a default value if a policy was not used.

Example

The following example displays permission policy information about the active document.

 Dim irmPermission As Office.Permission 
 Dim strIRMInfo As String 
 Set irmPermission = ActiveWorkbook.Permission 
 If irmPermission.Enabled Then 
 strIRMInfo = "Permissions are restricted on this document." & vbCrLf 
 If irmPermission.PermissionFromPolicy Then 
 strIRMInfo = strIRMInfo & " Permissions applied from policy:" & vbCrLf & _ 
 " Policy name: " & irmPermission.PolicyName & vbCrLf & _ 
 " Policy description: " & irmPermission.PolicyDescription 
 Else 
 strIRMInfo = strIRMInfo & " Default permissions applied." & vbCrLf & _ 
 " Default policy name: " & irmPermission.PolicyName & vbCrLf & _ 
 " Default policy description: " & irmPermission.PolicyDescription 
 End If 
 Else 
 strIRMInfo = "Permission are NOT restricted on this document." 
 End If 
 MsgBox strIRMInfo, vbInformation + vbOKOnly, "IRM Information" 
 Set irmPermission = Nothing 

See also

• Permission object members

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