In Archer, Private Fields are a high-security feature where access is restricted to specific Users or Groups, regardless of their Access Role permissions. When an administrator manages these permissions, the concept of Cascading is vital for hierarchy management.

As taught in Archer Administration II , if you grant a parent group access to a private field and select the "Cascade" option, Archer automatically extends those permissions to every child group within that hierarchy. This follows the standard inheritance model used throughout the platform's security architecture. Without cascading (Option C), only the direct members of the parent group would see the field data, and administrators would have to manually add every subgroup individually. Selecting cascade ensures that as the organization grows and new subgroups are added under the parent, those new members will automatically inherit the necessary access to view or edit the protected field.