Permissions

A permission is an authorization to access an application of Collibra Data Intelligence Platform, or to view or edit a resource.

Users are not granted permissions directly, but through global roles and responsibilities.

Collibra provides a set of permissions that are included in the default roles.

Permission types

Collibra has two types of permissions:

• Global permissions
• Resource permissions

Required license type of permissions

Collibra has several types of permissions, based on the license type that a user needs to act on the permission.

Resource permission type	Description
Read-only permission	A read-only permission is a permission for which a read-only license or higher is required.
Standard permission	A standard permission is a permission for which a standard license is required.

Actions

• Determine which global permissions are included in global roles.
• Determine which resource permissions are included in resource roles.