About component ownership
The user who writes a component becomes its owner by default. If, at a later time, a user with a user level higher than the original owner modifies the component, ownership of the component transfers to the higher level user who modified it. Users with lower levels do not have permission to view or modify components that are owned by users with higher levels.
If a higher level user modified and became the owner of the component, the lower level user would no longer be able to work with the component. To reassign ownership to the lower level user, an administrator must change the component ownership.
To change the owner of a component
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