## Personas

URL: https://docs.atlan.com/product/capabilities/governance/access-control/concepts/what-are-personas

> Personas in Atlan scope what a team sees and can do by bundling users and groups with access policies and a custom catalog view.

# Personas

A persona scopes what a team sees and can do in Atlan. It bundles the users and groups on a team, the policies that govern what they can access, and the display preferences that shape their view of the catalog. Every member of a persona inherits its access and view automatically, so a data engineering team sees only the assets relevant to their work while a finance team sees only finance data.

## Why use personas

Personas give each team a focused, consistent view of the catalog without editing access user by user.

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#### Team-scoped Each team sees only the assets relevant to their work, not the entire catalog.

- Give each team its own slice of the catalog

- Hide connections or domains a team doesn't need

- Stop a team from querying sources outside its scope

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#### Policies in one place Bundle metadata, data, business graph, and domain policies and apply them to everyone at once.

- Metadata policies for what they can edit

- Data policies for what they can query

- Business graph and domain policies for lineage and ownership

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#### Tailored view Set the landing page, visible asset types, sidebar tabs, and discovery filters per team.

- Land each team on a relevant home page

- Show only the asset types and filters they use

- Hide sidebar tabs that don't apply

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#### Automatic inheritance Add a user or group and they inherit the persona's access and view immediately.

- Add a group to onboard a whole team at once

- New hires get access on day one

- Remove someone and access is revoked on next sign-in

Reach for a persona when different teams should see different subsets of the catalog, when a team should land on a filtered view on sign-in, when you want to stop a team from querying specific connections, or when external stakeholders need a curated, read-only experience.

## How personas work

You create a persona, add the **users and groups** who belong to it, and attach the **policies** that define what they can access. Everyone you add inherits those policies automatically. A persona's scope only hides assets once you turn off the see-everything default, so pair personas with [restrict asset visibility](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/governance/access-control/access-control-settings/llms.txt) to limit what a team can browse.

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Users & groups SA Sarah TO Tom MA Marketing Analysts added to Marketing persona policies + view Metadata policy: read marketing assets Data policy: query marketing data View: lands on the Marketing dashboard Result: Sarah, Tom, and everyone in the Marketing Analysts group inherit the persona's policies and view. Add a user or group and they get the same scoped access automatically; remove them and it's revoked on their next sign-in.

A user can belong to multiple personas at once. Their effective access is the union of all their personas' grants, with explicit denies always winning. For how personas, purposes, and roles interact, see [Permissions & data access](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/governance/access-control/permissions-and-data-access/llms.txt).

## Manage personas

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#### Set up team access

Create a persona that bundles users, groups, policies, and a view for a team.

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#### Add team members

Add or remove the users and groups who inherit the persona.

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#### Customize catalog view

Set the landing page, visible asset types, sidebar tabs, and filters a team sees.

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#### Copy policy to another team

Reuse an existing policy in another persona without rebuilding it.

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#### Restrict asset visibility

Turn off the see-everything default so a persona's scope actually limits what users browse.

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#### Restrict glossary visibility

Hide glossaries from users outside the personas that should see them.

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## See also

- [Set up team access](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/governance/access-control/create-a-persona/llms.txt): Build a persona, define its policies, and configure the initial settings.
- [What are groups?](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/governance/access-control/what-are-groups/llms.txt): How groups relate to personas.
- [Purposes](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/governance/access-control/what-are-purposes/llms.txt): Tag-based access control, the complement to personas.
- [Permissions & data access](https://docs.atlan.com/llms/governance/access-control/permissions-and-data-access/llms.txt): Compare personas and purposes, and see how access layers combine.

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