Author
The Author permission is focused on quality check lifecycle management. Authors can create, activate, validate, and manage the status of quality checks and their associated anomalies. This is the permission level for users who own the data quality rules on assigned datastores.
Who Should Have Author Access?
Author is designed for data quality analysts and data stewards who need to:
- Create, edit, and delete quality checks (both draft and active)
- Activate and validate checks to make them operational
- Change the status of checks (e.g., from draft to active)
- Edit check metadata (descriptions, tags, and configurations)
- Triage anomalies by changing their status (acknowledge, archive)
- Assign tags to assets on assigned datastores
Tip
Author is the minimum permission level required to activate quality checks. Drafters can create checks, but only Authors (and above) can make them operational.
Includes
Author includes all capabilities of Drafter, Viewer, and Reporter.
Capability Table
| Action | Author |
|---|---|
| Datastores | |
| View Source Datastore | |
| Preview Source Datastore | |
| Edit Datastore Settings | |
| Delete Source Datastore | |
| Multi-Schema Datastore Creation | |
| View Enrichment Datastore | |
| Preview Enrichment Datastore | |
| Delete Enrichment Datastore | |
| Operations | |
| View Activity | |
| Run & Manage Operations | |
| Schedule Operations | |
| Create/Delete Computed Asset | |
| Profiles | |
| View Profiles | |
| Delete Profiles | |
| Quality Checks | |
| View Checks | |
| Create Draft Checks | |
| Save / Restore Check to Draft | |
| Create / Edit Active Checks | |
| Activate / Validate Check | |
| Edit Check Metadata | |
| Archive / Delete Checks | |
| Dry Run Check | |
| Anomalies | |
| View Anomalies | |
| View Anomaly Source Records | |
| Change Anomaly Status (Acknowledge / Archive) | |
| Add Comment to Anomaly | |
| Tags | |
| View Tags | |
| Assign Tags to Assets | |
| Datastore Groups | |
| View Datastore Groups | |
| Assign Datastore to Group | |
| Field Status | |
| View Field Status | |
| Mask / Unmask Field | |
| Exclude Field | |
| Restore Field | |
| Delete Field | |
| Merge Fields | |
| View Masked Field Values |
Note
Authors cannot run operations, manage enrichment, or modify datastore settings. For those capabilities, Editor permission is required.