Security is applied to Groups or individual Users by Admins as well as by Power Users with the necessary Privileges and Permissions.
Privilege is a right granted to a Group or individual User that allows the member or User to perform specific Metric Insights functions or use non-configurable methods of fetching data; e.g., Create Folders, Create Datasets, Create Content using CSV files, Maintain Personal Settings.
Permission is a right granted to a Group or individual User that allows the member or User to access content; i.e., data contained in an object. Types of Permissions include:
- Use Access: Allows a Power User to use an object when creating other objects or fetching data: e.g., Configurable Data Sources, Data Collection Trigger
- View Access: Permits a Regular or Power User to see content in an element, Dataset/User Map, Dimension, Category
- Edit Access: Grants a Power User the ability to edit an object using its Editor