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New user roles
We are excited to announce the availability of new user roles at this release. Previously, all users were given a default User role giving them full access to all standard platform functionality – catalog search, order imagery from archive, and task new imagery. User functionality is now being broken out into three distinct roles and users can be granted access to one or more of these roles:
Archive Viewer
This is the default role automatically assigned to all users. A user with the Archive Viewer role can browse the entire Capella public imagery archive, preview imagery on the map, and explore imagery metadata. However, users exclusively assigned to this role cannot incur new charges for archive imagery orders, nor can they task new imagery. All free or pre-purchased data (imagery in the capella-open-data collection, imagery shared with the user’s organization via license or contract, and imagery already owned by the user’s organization) remains available for download via the existing ordering process.
Archive Buyer
Users with the Archive Buyer role have the additional ability to purchase new archive imagery by charging non-$0 orders to their organization’s contract(s) via the existing ordering process.
Tasker
Users with the Tasker role have the additional ability to task new imagery and charge new tasking requests to their organization’s contract(s) via the existing tasking workflows.
To maintain backwards compatibility, all users have been automatically granted access to all three new roles. Individual user roles can be modified by those with elevated platform permission accounts (e.g. Organization Managers) to restrict user access as necessary going forward. New user accounts will be granted the Archive Viewer role by default. Additional user roles, if required, can be assigned at the time of user creation or edited at any time.
This important capability will allow our customers to control user access to specific functionality within the Capella platform – allowing them to better manage data access and organization budgets.