Overview
All users in Atlan need to be assigned one of the following predefined roles.
π¨ Careful! User roles play a relatively small part in determining access to metadata and data. For more details on all the possible access control mechanisms, see How do I control access to metadata and data?
Admin
An admin user can manage Atlan:
- Set up integrations with external collaboration tools
- Set up data connections and run workflows
- Manage users, groups, tags, and access policies
- Maintain extensions to the metadata
- Turn experimental features on and off
In addition, the admin user can do everything the member user can do.
Member
A member user can discover, maintain, and query assets:
- Find and view context about assets
- Update context about specific assets (via personas and policies)
- Suggest updates to context for all other assets
- Approve or reject suggested metadata changes (via personas and policies)
- Preview and query data in specific assets
Guest
A guest user can only discover assets:
- Find and view context about assets
- Suggest updates to context for any assets (if enabled from the admin center)
- Never update context about any assets
- Never preview or query data in any assets
Detailed permissions
Permission | Admin | Member | Guest |
---|---|---|---|
Manage tags | β | ||
Manage custom metadata and options | β | ||
Manage users and groups | β | ||
Manage access (personas, purposes, policies) | β | ||
Edit the organization's profile | β | ||
Create API tokens | β | ||
Set up SSO | β | ||
Create workflows | β | ||
Approve or reject suggested metadata changes | β | β | |
Manage glossaries (including bulk upload) | β | ||
Manage categories and terms | β | β | |
Preview data assets | β | β | |
Suggest changes to metadata | β | β | β |
Edit metadata (via personas and policies) | β | β | |
View basic metadata for assets | β | β | β |
Create Jira issues on assets | β | β | β |
Share assets on Slack | β | β | β |
Insights | Included | Add-on | N/A |
Run queries | β | β | |
Create collections, folders, and saved queries | β | β | |
Schedule queries | β | β | |
Collaborate on saved queries | β | β |