Product Catalog Roles - Fabric
User Roles and Permissions
User roles have predefined permissions in fabric. This page covers the roles as they relate to the products application and their unique capabilities within each products menu:
- Admin: Manages product settings including attribute mapping and attribute groups. With this role, you can publish or unpublish an item or bundle, and delete items, bundles, and categories.
- Editor: Creates and updates content and sends changes for review.
- Viewer: Views content but can’t create, update, or delete content. Viewers can’t manage product settings.
List and Details
The List menu is where products are imported, reviewed, and revised.
- Admin: Views and manages item lists and item details, including creating, publishing, and deleting items individually or in bulk. An admin can also upload items in bulk via CSV import, download older imported files, and export all items.
- Editor: Views, creates, and manages item lists and item details, but can’t publish or delete items. Editors can also upload items in bulk via CSV import, download older imported files, and export all items from a catalog.
- Viewer: Views item lists and item details but can’t edit, publish, or delete items. Viewers can download previous imports and export existing data from Products. Viewers can’t create or update items or bulk imports via CSV.
Categories and Collections
The products are grouped together for better discovery and catalog management in the Categories and Collections menus.
- Admin: Creates and manages both categories and collections. Admins can add attributes and define attribute values for each node. They also have the capability to delete an entire collection, delete a single node of a category, and publish a collection.
- Editor: Creates and manages both types of hierarchies. Editors can also modify an existing collection, category, or any of its nodes and category attribute values. Editors can’t publish or delete a category.
- Viewer: Views both types of categories and the details of each node. Viewers can’t create a new category and can’t make any changes to any existing categories.
Product and Category Attributes
The Attributes menu is where product characteristics are defined.
- Admin: Creates and manages product attributes and has permission to import attributes, perform bulk uploads, and delete any existing attributes as permitted by the system. Admins can also export existing attributes and review import history of attributes.
- Editor: Creates and manages product attributes and has permission to import attributes, perform bulk uploads. They can’t delete any attributes.
- Viewer: Views existing attributes and their details. They can also export existing attributes and review old import attributes.
Settings
The Settings menu allows attributes to be grouped together to manage large volumes of product information.
- Admin: Creates and manages Attribute Mappings. Admins can also create new attribute groups and modify existing attribute groups.
- Editor: Creates new attribute groups and modifies existing groups. Editors can’t make any changes to Attribute Mappings.
- Viewer: Views existing attribute groups and attribute mapping. Viewers aren’t permitted to make any changes.
Related Topics
For more information about role-based access control within fabric’s individual products, see the following sections: