Responsibilities

A responsibility is the assignment of one or more users 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:

For communities, the responsibilities are inherited by subcommunities, domains and assets in those communities. For example, if you are a Business Steward for a certain community, you are also a Business Steward for all the subcommunities, domains and assets inside that community.
For domains, the responsibilities are inherited by the assets in those domains.
For assets, the responsibilities only apply to the assets.

Example

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