DYNAMIC RUNTIME FIELD-LEVEL ACCESS CONTROL USING A HIERARCHICAL PERMISSION CONTEXT STRUCTURE

This disclosure provides for a system, method, and machine-readable medium for performing dynamic runtime field-level access control using a hierarchical permission context structure. The hierarchical permission context structure includes various levels of roles, where each role is assigned one or more permissions. The one or more permissions assigned to the one or more roles indicate the amount of control a given user has over data displayable in an electronic document. The electronic document includes one or more fields having corresponding records in one or more databases. A record includes metadata about the data for a corresponding field. When an electronic document is requested, the fields of the electronic document are generated from the data stored in their corresponding records. An evaluation is performed that determines whether the user requesting the electronic document is authorized to view the data for one or more of the fields based on their corresponding metadata.