Control Center Roles

To use Control Center, you must first have an account in Account Manager, and this account must be assigned to the appropriate roles. Account Manager has two predefined roles that apply to Control Center: Control Center Administrator and Control Center User. Both roles are general roles covering broad capabilities. This topic applies to B2C Commerce.

• The Control Center Administrator gives the account full administrative control over your organization's instances in Control Center; this role also gives the account the ability to configure permissions for other users in Control Center.
• The Control Center User enables the account to perform any Control Center actions permitted by a Control Center administrator.

Within Control Center, administrators can define fine‑grained roles — specific roles that apply to a subset of Control Center users. These roles are designed to make configuration easier. A fine‑grained role binds one or more users to a set of instance‑level permissions. For example, suppose an administrator wants to give 10 users permissions to three sandboxes. One approach is to repeat the instance‑level permissions for each user (30 assignments). Another approach is to define a role, specify the instance‑level permissions just three times (once per instance), and then assign all 10 users to that single role.

Administrators can also combine both configuration techniques (instance‑level permissions and roles).

• For large organizations, roles can save significant time.
• For small organizations, specifying instance‑level permissions per user might be simpler.
• Roles are especially useful when a group of users needs the same set of permissions.