About responsibilities

A responsibility is the assignment of one or more users and/or user groups to a resource role for a resource.

Based on their responsibilities, users can act on the permissions conveyed to them via the resource role.

Child resources always inherit the responsibilities from their parent resources:

  • If the resource is a community, the responsibilities are inherited by subcommunities, domains and assets in the community. For example, if you are a Business Steward for a certain community, you are a Business Steward for all the subcommunities, domains and assets inside that community.
  • If the resource is a domain, the responsibilities are inherited by the assets in the domain.
  • If the resource is an asset, the responsibilities only apply to the asset itself, because assets never have children.

Important For optimal performance and ease of use, we recommend that you create responsibilities mainly on domains and communities and not directly on assets. Creating responsibilities directly on large amounts of assets may lead to decreased performance.

Example 

Suppose the following setup:

  • Anita Morrison is assigned the Community Manager resource role for a community called "Enterprise".
  • John Fisher is assigned the Business Steward resource role for a domain called "Critical Data Elements" in the "Enterprise" community.
  • Joanna Zhou is assigned the Owner resource role for a domain called "Critical Data Elements" in the "Enterprise" community.
  • William Parker is assigned the Owner resource role for an asset called "Customer Revenue" in the "Critical Data Elements" domain.

This leads to the following responsibilities:

Resource

Direct responsibilities

Inherited responsibilities
Enterprise community
  • Anita Morrison as Community Manager
  • None
Critical Data Elements domain
  • John Fisher as Business Steward
  • Joanna Zhou as Owner
  • Anita Morrison as Community Manager
Customer Revenue asset
  • William Parker as Owner
  • Anita Morrison as Community Manager
  • John Fisher as Business Steward
  • Joanna Zhou as Owner

Note You can view direct and inherited responsibilities of a resource in different places.