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Assign admin sub-roles

TL;DR

Sub-roles in Atlan let you delegate specific admin tasks to Members without giving them full Admin access. Governance Admin manages personas and policies; Workflow Admin manages workflows and apps.

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Governance Admin and Workflow Admin are sub-roles that extend a Member's capabilities for specific tasks without granting full Admin access. Governance Admin lets a user create and manage personas, purposes, and policies. Workflow Admin lets a user create and manage automation workflows and apps.

A user can hold only one admin sub-role at a time. Assigning a new sub-role replaces whichever one the user already had. Changing a user's role also signs them out of all active sessions, so they'll need to log back in.

A Governance Admin is still a Member everywhere except governance settings: they can't manage users, configure SSO, or access workspace-level settings.

Prerequisites​

  • You are an Admin in Atlan. Only Admins can assign sub-roles.

Assign sub-role​

Governance Admins can create and manage personas, purposes, and metadata policies. They cannot manage users, integrations, connectors, or other workspace settings.

  1. In your Atlan workspace, click Admin from the left menu.

  2. Click Users, then click the role name next to the user you want to promote (for example, Member).

  3. In the Select Role panel, choose Governance Admin under ADMIN.

  4. Click Update role.

The user can now create and manage personas, purposes, and access policies.

To remove this sub-role, open the same Select Role panel and choose a different role, such as Member.

Need help?​

Contact Atlan Support if sub-roles are not saving or are not behaving as expected.

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