Administrators (role)

Administrators is the common system administrator role for the AgilePoint NX Portal. Any registered AgilePoint NX user can be assigned the Administrators role. There is no limit to the number of users who can be assigned the Administrators role. The Administrators role is subordinate to the Tenant Administrator. In addition to being master users for an AgilePoint NX Portal tenant, users with the Administrators role also serve as the Global Permissions Manager for apps created in App Builder.

Note: The Administrators role is different from the AgilePoint NX System Administrator. The AgilePoint NX System Administrator is one person, independent of any accounts or permissions. Administrators is a security role that can be assigned to any NX Portal user.
Figure: Administrators (role)

Administrators Role

Background and Setup

Good to Know

  • Other system administrator types covered in this section — Tenant Administrator (person), Database Administrator, and Network Administrator — are all human roles in an organization. That is, these are functions that human users serve, rather than administrator accounts, roles, or access controls within AgilePoint NX. All of the credentials for these administrator types are covered on this page. The subsequent pages — Tenant Adminstrator, Database Administrator, and Network Administrator — represent ways that these credentials can be divided among the responsiblities of human administrator users. Thus, there is some duplication of content for these pages. However, subsequent pages also cover some privileges for AgilePoint NX on external systems that these people manage, such as the database and SharePoint.
  • These administrator types have similar names, and they are easy to confuse:
    • The AgilePoint NX System Administrator is a person who is responsible for several administrator accounts and roles. In most cases, there is one primary AgilePoint NX System Administrator, but this is not a technical limitation.
    • Tenant Administrator (capitalized) is a master administrator setting for the NX Portal. There can be only one Tenant Administrator.

      The Tenant Administrator is assigned on the Tenant screen.

    • A tenant administrator (small letters) is a person who is resonsible for one AgilePoint Server tenant. In multi-tenant environments, each tenant can have its own tenant administrator, but this is not a technical limitation.

      The tenant administrator (person) usually has the Tenant Administrator setting, as well as other security roles. However, the privileges are the decision of an organization and not a technical limitation.

    • The AgilePoint System Account is a set of credentials for managing AgilePoint Server. There can be only one AgilePoint System Account. In most cases, one human user is assigned these credentials. The names for the System Account and Service Account, especially, are often confused.
    • The AgilePoint Service Account is a set of credentials AgilePoint Server uses to connect with other systems. There can be only one AgilePoint Service Account. Only the AgilePoint Server software uses these credentials, and they are not assigned to a human user. However, the AgilePoint NX System Administrator is usually responsible for maintaining these credentials. The names for the System Account and Service Account, especially, are often confused.
    • Administrator is a security role on the NX Portal. Any number of users can be assigned the Administrator role.

Applies to Deployment Types

Permissions

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Administrators

(Role)

Administrators is the common system administrator role for the AgilePoint NX Portal. Any registered AgilePoint NX user can be assigned the Administrators role. There is no limit to the number of users who can be assigned the Administrators role. The Administrators role is subordinate to the Tenant Administrator. In addition to being master users for an AgilePoint NX Portal tenant, users with the Administrators role also serve as the Global Permissions Manager for apps created in App Builder..

Note: The Administrators role is different from the AgilePoint NX System Administrator. The AgilePoint NX System Administrator is one person, independent of any accounts or permissions. Administrators is a security role that can be assigned to any NX Portal user.
  • You can have more than one AgilePoint NX account with the Administrators role.
  • The default Administrators role is not the only type of administrator level role that you can create in AgilePoint NX. You can create custom administrator-level roles with different access rights.
  • Unlike Data Entities and Page Builder, App Builder does not have a Global Permission Manager permission group. By default, global permissions for apps are managed by users with the Administrators role.

    You can create new roles for managing global permissions in App Builder if you do not want those users to have full administrator access rights.

Access Rights:
  • By default, the Administrators role has all access rights in AgilePoint NX, except the following:
  • For a full list of access rights in AgilePoint NX, refer to Access Rights.
  • When permission groups are enabled, the Administrators role serves the function of a global permission manager for App Builder.

How to Start

  1. Click Manage.

    Click Manage
  2. In Manage Center, click Access Control > Roles.

    Click Roles
  3. On the Roles screen, select Administrators.

    Select Role
  4. Click Edit Role.

    Click Edit Role
  5. On the Edit Role screen, click the Select Members tab.

    Click Select Members Tab
  6. On the Select Members tab, click Add Members.

    Click Add Members
  7. On the Available Members screen, in the Groups / User Name / Full Name field, select Full Name.

    Select User Name
  8. In the Full Name field, enter Sarah Lawrence.

    Enter User Name
  9. Click Search Search icon.

    Click Search
  10. In the users list, select Sarah Lawrence.

    Select User
  11. Click Add.
  12. On the Edit Role screen, click Update.

    Edit Role Update screen