Setting editor and admin permissions

After you add users to your Explore account, and define their role, you can choose which datasets they can view and change. This helps you secure your company information from unauthorized views or changes.

Read this article to learn about the various permissions available, and how to configure them for editors and admins. To learn how to create users with the editor and admin roles, see Adding users to Explore.

Note: If you do not grant an editor or admin permissions to a dataset, they will not be able to view it, even when it is shared.

Setting editor permissions

If you are an admin or the account owner, you can set permissions for what your editors and other admins can access. Admins can edit permissions for all users, including themselves. Viewers do not have any additional permissions.

To set permissions for editors

1. In Explore, click the Admin icon () on the left sidebar.
2. On the admin page, click the Editor authorizations icon.

   

3. Click the Editor authorizations drop-down menu above your list of datasets.
4. On the Dataset authorizations page, select the editor you want to set permissions for.

   

   Note: Only users that have previously accessed the Explore instance are shown in the list.
5. Check the boxes next to the permission settings you want to apply for the different datasets.

   

   Choose from:

   • Can view: The editor can see the dataset and the queries created from the dataset (view-only).
   • Can save queries: The editor can create, update, and delete queries created from the dataset.
   • Can edit: The editor can create calculated elements and edit element data structure within a dataset.
   • Can edit datasets: The editor can rename datasets and select a different datasets.

   Or choose Select all.

6. When you are finished, navigate away from the page. Changes are saved automatically.