Access and Permissions¶

DCB distinguishes between the following types of roles:

• Application roles, which control what users can do within the application.
• Contract roles, which describe responsibilities defined within a contract.

A user can have the Contract Owner application role in DCB while also being assigned contract roles such as data owner, producer, or contact within the contract itself.

Application Roles¶

Contract Owner¶

Contract Owners manage contract content and lifecycle. They can:

• Create contracts.
• Edit draft contracts.
• Manage datasets, properties, relationships, roles, service levels, and quality rules.
• Manage contributors.
• Process suggestions.
• Review automatically updated validation results and resolve blocking issues.
• Activate contracts.
• Create versions.
• Deprecate and retire contracts.

Contributor¶

Contributors participate in contract reviews. They can:

• Review contract content.
• Review generated YAML.
• Submit suggestions.
• Participate in discussions.
• Monitor suggestion status.

Contributors cannot modify contract content directly. They can only propose changes through suggestions.

Viewer¶

Viewers have read-only access. They can:

• Read contract metadata and data-model information.
• Read the YAML representation.
• Review active and historical contract versions.

All Data Intelligence Platform users have Viewer access by default.

Assign Access¶

Contract access is granted through explicit assignment. Contract Owners can add or remove Contributors from individual contracts, allowing them to review content, participate in discussions, and submit suggestions.

Permissions by Contract Status¶

Permissions also depend on the version status:

• A Draft can be edited by a Contract Owner and reviewed collaboratively.
• An Active version is immutable for all roles.
• A Deprecated or Retired version remains read-only and is retained for historical reference.

To modify an Active contract, a Contract Owner must create a new Draft working copy version. No role can directly edit the Active version.