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7.5 Secured padding members
Secured padding members ensure that the hierarchies remain balanced. Balanced,
non-ragged hierarchies have better performance in the studios. Secured padding members
are inserted into a secured hierarchy member tree when a granted member has all its
children restricted. This way is most common with grant members when granting only
members and not including descendants in the scope. However, it can also occur with deny
filters or with a combination of grant and deny filters.
Consider the following points:
If a non-leaf member has all its descendants restricted, then secured padd ...