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Role permissions

Each role in K has a different level of permissions granted to it. Some of these permissions can be customised by your Administrator to suit your organisation’s approach to metadata management.

The following table summaries the Role to Capability

Capabilities

Action

Business User

Data Worker

Data Governance

Data Manager

KADA Admin

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K Features

Insights




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Feed


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Ecosystem


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Search


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Business users: Search applies additional weighting to content (e.g. Reports)

Filters


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Inventory


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Business users: Default to Catalog view

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Alerts


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Action Centre



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Documentation & Knowledge

Profile

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Setting found in Customisation

Profile

Link Collection

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Profile

Create Tag

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Profile

Add Tag

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Profile

Link Glossary Term

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Profile

Link Item

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Setting found in Customisation

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Add Knowledge

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Profile

Ask Question

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Profile

Add Issue

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Profile

Add Change



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Profile

Add Property




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Profile

Add Role




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Profile

View usage


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Profile

View quality

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Governance & Glossary

Collection

Create Instance / Term

Customisable


Managed per Collection

Collection

Edit Instance / Term

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Managed per Collection

Collection

Bulk Edit



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Applications

Applications -

View Lineage explorer

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Applications -

Run Impact Assessment


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Applications

Access Ask K extracts



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Insights

Insights

View Usage Insights Dashboard




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Insights

View Governance Dashboard



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Insights

View Data Quality Dashboard



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Domain Owners and Stewards will also have access to view their Domains

Insights

View Issue Dashboard



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Insights

View Data Owner Dashboard



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All Data Owners also have access

Insights

View Data Steward Dashboard



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All Data Stewards also have access

Insights

View Data Load Dashboard




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Administration

Settings

Customise Platform



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Setting

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Settings

Manage Teams




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Settings

Manage User Merge




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Settings

Manage Collections



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Settings

Manage Linking Rules



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Settings

Manage Sources




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Settings

Manage Integrations




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Settings

Manage Access Keys




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Settings

Manage Adhoc loads




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Settings

View Monitor




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Settings

Manage Platform Configurations




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