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Personas reference

DeltaVault has two content personas. Every member of your organization is assigned one of these personas by an administrator. The personas are fixed by the platform: every organization has the same two, and an administrator cannot relabel one, reorder them, remove one, create a new one, or change what each one shows. Assigning a persona to a member is the whole of the control you have.

These personas control the navigation and view a member sees. They are separate from access roles (editor and viewer), which control what a member can change.

The two personas

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Data Steward

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Keeps the business vocabulary healthy: what each term means, how it is classified, and how source metadata maps onto it. This is the persona a member starts with when an administrator has not chosen one for them.

Sections visible: Business, Catalog, Models, Entities, Glossary, Map & Match, Knowledge

Data Engineer

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Works the full platform surface: modeling, catalog, templates, and pipelines.

Sections visible: Projects, Catalog, Builds, Operations, Toolkit, Business, Branches, Knowledge, Models, Entities, Glossary, Map & Match

Assigning personas

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Administrators assign a home persona and allowed personas to each member from the organization member grid. For instructions, see Assign personas to your members.

Switching between personas

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If an administrator allows a member more than one persona, a Persona option appears in their account menu (their avatar in the top-right corner). Switching reskins the navigation but does not change permissions. For more, see Working in DeltaVault as your persona.

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