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Overview of RBAC

The Ditto portal provides the ability to create, modify, and delete custom roles, allowing you to set fine-grained read-write access controls to database data. With this you can define organization hierarchies for permissions delegation, set permissions for portal functionality like viewing collections, querying tokens, transferring databases between organizations, and more.

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Organization Permissions Settings

When configuring access control for roles within an organization, there are various types of privileges you can choose from. These can be accessed from the role editor, available under Settings > Roles. The following table provides an overview of the various settings you can configure for roles within an organization.
Some permissions have dependencies on others.For example, a role with Accept incoming database transfer requests permission will also have View incoming database transfer requests.Where this applies, these dependent roles will be selected automatically for you when selecting in the role editor.

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Database Permissions Settings

Following is an overview of the various settings that, once assigned, grant end users the ability to manage the database. (See Creating Roles)

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Offline License Token Permissions

The Database Permissions Settings table above includes two permissions related to offline license tokens:
  • Access offline-only licenses — Grants visibility to the offline license token section on the Connect tab of a database. Users without this permission will not see offline license tokens in the Portal at all.
  • Request offline-only licenses — Allows creating and managing offline license tokens. This permission depends on Access offline-only licenses (both are required to create tokens).
If you need offline license tokens but lack the required permissions, ask your organization admin to assign a role with these permissions, or contact Ditto support to have tokens generated for you. For more on obtaining tokens, see Getting SDK Connection Details.

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Organization Roles

To establish role-based access controls for your organization:
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Create new roles with the desired settings. (Creating New Roles)
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Designate roles for the appropriate end users within your organization. (Assigning Roles to End Users)

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Creating New Roles

To add a new role to your organization:
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From your organization, click Settings.
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Click Roles.
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Click Add new role.
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Click to select and deselect the settings you want to apply to your new role as desired, and then click Create role.
For organization members to regain read-write access to database data, enable Access adatabase data and Modify database data in the **Database permissions **as shown in the following graphic.Once you’ve created your role with read-write access permissions, make sure to assign the role to your members as appropriate. (Assigning Roles)

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Assigning Roles to End Users

Once you’ve created a role, designate them to the appropriate end users within your organization:
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From Settings > Members, click Invite member located on the right.
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From the Invite users modal that appears:
  1. Enter the email belonging to the end user you want to add.
  2. Click Role and select the role type you want to assign.
  3. Click Add to list.
  4. When finished adding end users to the invite, click Invite users.

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Viewing Pending Member Invitations

Once a member is assigned a role, Ditto automatically sends a formal invitation to the email address specified in the invite, which must be accepted before RBAC privileges take effect. To view a list of invitations waiting for approval, go to Settings > Members in the portal. A complete list of invitations display within Pending member invitations, as shown in the following graphic:

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Modifying and Deleting Roles

To edit a role’s settings or permanently remove a role from your organization:
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From your organization, click Settings.
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Click Roles.
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Click the three-dot menu next to the role you want to modify or delete:
  • To modify, select Edit.
  • To permanently remove, select Delete.

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Ditto Employee Access Grants

There are circumstances in which Ditto’s support team requires elevated privileges to access your database data, for instance, to troubleshoot an issue. Ditto employees can only access your database data with an approved access grant. An access grant is a formal authorization provided by any of the following to approve the access request initiated by Ditto:
  • Current organization owner
  • Organization roles configured with** Manage access grants** privileges
Once accepted, you can revoke access grants at any time. (See Revoking Access) For more information, see Organization Permissions Settings and Accepting Access Grants.

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Granting Access

To approve a Ditto-initiated access grant:
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Click Database.
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From Access grants, click Accept.

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Revoking Access

Once an access grant is approved, you can end access at any time:
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Click Database.
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From Access grants, click Revoke access.