Manage Global Roles
Please refer to the responsibilities and capabilities assignment model for an explanation of how users relate to role assignment.
Global roles are used to assign repository wide responsibilities to users and groups that apply to all objects in the repository.
There are several pre-defined but fully customizable object roles already delivered with the product.
Role Name | Type | Definition |
Security Administrator | Producer | User and group management |
Global Administrator | Producer | All global administrative capabilities. Created by default on new install and on migrated install for the Administrators group to migrate properly. |
Application Administrator | Producer | Server management capabilities |
API User | Consumer | REST API access |
Application Designer | Consumer | Customization of dashboards and presentations and related worksheets and collections |
Worksheet Author | Consumer | Creation, management and editing of worksheets |
Collections Custodian | Consumer | Creation, management and editing of collections |
The list of global roles above are provided by default for new installations only. If you have upgraded from an earlier version you may not see all of these and may see others which were migrated. You may still import the list of global roles above which are in the installation path at /conf/Roles/GlobalRoles.csv.
Assignment of the Global Administrator role to a user means that user has all global capabilities within.