Access Levels & Permissions

Workspace access levels are assigned to users or roles. An access level applies to the workspace and all resources inside it. If a user has no access level for a workspace, that workspace does not appear in the left sidebar.

Octostar provides three access levels:

• Read
• Write
• Admin

A workspace user is any user who has an access level assigned for that workspace. The access level determines which actions the user can perform on workspace resources. Workspaces contain different resource types. Each access level enables a different set of actions.

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Special roles

Some roles grant an implicit access level across all workspaces:

• read_all_workspaces
• write_all_workspaces
• admin_all_workspaces

Special usernames

The username admin automatically has Admin access to all workspaces, even without explicit role or permission assignments.

Managing Users and Roles

You manage user and role membership in the Fusion Center.

1. Sign in as a privileged user.
2. Open Fusion Center.
3. Navigate to Manage → Access Manager.
4. Add, modify, or delete users and roles, and update role assignments.

Note: “permissions” in this view refer to platform-level permissions (for example access to ontologies and data sources). Workspace access levels are configured on the workspace itself.

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Managing Access Levels for a Workspace

As a workspace admin, you manage access levels from the workspace context menu.

1. Sign in to Octostar.
2. Create or open a workspace where you have Admin access.
3. Right-click the workspace and select Member Access..
4. Assign one or more users or roles to an access level (Read, Write, Admin).
5. Save changes.