User Roles¶

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Organization Roles
Project Roles

Organization Roles¶

Organization Role	Decription
`Organization Owner`¶	Grants root access to the organization, including: `Project Owner` access to all projects in the organization, even if added to a project with a non-Owner role. Privileges to administer organization settings. Privileges to add/remove/edit users to the organization. Privileges to delete the organization. All the privileges granted by the other organization roles combined.
`Organization Project Creator`¶	Grants the following access: Privileges to create projects in the organization. Privileges granted by the `Organization Member` role.
`Organization Billing Admin`¶	Grants the following access: Privileges to administer billing information for the organization. Privileges granted by the `Organization Member` role.
`Organization Read Only`¶	Provides read-only access to everything in the organization, including all projects in the organization. For an `Organization Member`, within a project, the user has the privileges as determined by the user’s project role. If a user’s project role is `Project Owner`, then the user can add a new user to the project, which results in adding the newly-added user to the organization as well (if the newly added user is not already in the organization).
`Organization Member`¶	Provides read-only access to the organization (settings, users, and billing) and the projects to which they belong. For an `Organization Member`, within a project, the user has the privileges as determined by the user’s project role. If a user’s project role is `Project Owner`, then the user can add a new user to the project, which results in adding the newly-added user to the organization as well (if the newly added user is not already in the organization).

Project Roles¶

The following roles grant privileges within a project.

Project Role	Decription
`Project Owner`¶	Provides full project administration access. A user with `Organization Owner` role has `Project Owner` access for all projects in the organization, even if added to a project with a Read Only role.
`Project Data Access Admin`¶	Grants access to Data Explorer; specifically, the privileges to perform the following through Data Explorer: View, create, and drop databases, collections, and indexes. View, modify, and delete documents. This role also grants privileges of `Project Read Only` as well as privileges to view the sample query field values in the Performance Advisor. The `Project Data Access Admin` role does not grant privileges to initiate backup or restore jobs.
`Project Data Access Read/Write`¶	Grants access to Data Explorer; specifically, the privileges to perform the following through Data Explorer: View and create databases and collections. View, modify, and delete documents. View indexes. This role also grants privileges to view the sample query field values in the Performance Advisor.
`Project Data Access Read Only`¶	Grants access to Data Explorer; specifically, the privileges to view databases, collections, and indexes through the Data Explorer. This role also grants privileges to view the sample query field values in the Performance Advisor.
`Project Read Only`¶	Grants read-only access to most aspects of the project, including: all activity, operational data, users, and user roles. The user, however, cannot access the Data Explorer.

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