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User role comparison reference

If your user account has the Owner primary role or Admin primary role attributed, you can choose what user role to apply when you invite others to your organization. Admin user role reference maps the two admin-specific roles to the types of general duties expected of these role types.

Table 1. Admin user role reference
Admin Owner

Role

The admin primary role allows one or more users within your organization to have limited elevated privileges for managing user invitations.

Typically, admin users are trusted users within your business with a sufficient understanding of your organizational needs.

An owner primary role allows one or more users within your organization to have elevated privileges for managing users.

Duties

Typical duties:

  • Configure templates provided by developers

  • Configure integrations

  • Configure workflows

  • Customize configuration

  • Implement capabilities

  • Manage users

  • Manage site configuration.

Typical duties:

  • Invite users to an organization.

  • Grant owner and admin role permissions

  • View billing information and access invoices.

  • All other duties an Admin primary role user can perform.

Capability

An admin interacts with the following capabilities:

  • An owner can access all functions, capabilities, and services in the Squiz DXP.

  • Including access to the Squiz DXP Log service.

Common job titles

Site Manager, Site Administrator

Typically, the owner is the main business owner of Squiz DXP within your organization.

Non-admin user role reference maps each non-admin primary user role to the general duties commonly associated with these role types in the Squiz DXP.

Table 2. Non-admin user role reference
Content editor Site builder Developer

Role

A content editor creates and manages content, including content discoverability through search.

They use tools created by site builder user roles in their daily duties.

A site builder sets up Squiz DXP capabilities for their organization and applies additional configuration and customization requirements as they arise.

They use tools created by developer user roles as part of their daily duties.

A developer creates capabilities using the existing services and features available in the DXP.

They create tools that content editors and site builders use to perform their duties.

Duties

Typical duties:

  • Create content

  • Ensure content quality standards are met

  • Ensure content is discoverable

  • Ensure content is accessible

  • Manage content versioning

  • Troubleshoot content problems

  • Monitor search result behaviour (for example, searching hourly distribution)

Typical duties:

  • Implement capabilities

  • Customise configuration

  • Configure integrations

  • Configure workflows

  • Manage users

  • Manage site configuration.

  • Set up user interfaces using elements provided by developers.

  • Influence search result behavior (for example, best bets).

Typical duties:

  • Builds the following features and apps:

    • Website templates

    • Content components

    • Customizations

    • Plugins

    • Integrations

    • Workflows

    • Integrations with third-party apps

  • Customize the following elements of the DXP:

    • Editing experience

    • Capabilities

    • Tests and automation.

Capability

A content editor interacts with the following capabilities:

  • Squiz Content Management

  • Squiz Search (Analytics)

  • Advanced Forms

  • Page Builder.

A site builder interacts with the following capabilities:

  • Squiz Content Management

  • Squiz Search (Marketing dashboard)

  • Templated solutions

  • Advanced Forms

  • Page Builder.

A developer interacts with the following capabilities:

  • Squiz Content Management

  • Squiz Search (Admin dashboard)

  • Squiz Search (Plugins)

  • Squiz Integrations

  • Templated solutions

  • Advanced Forms

  • Page Builder

  • Data Services

  • Component Service.

  • Access to the Squiz DXP Log service.

Common job titles

Site Editor, Content Editor, Content Creator, Content Owner Copywriter, Digital Marketer.

Web Manager, Webmaster, Website Author, Website Coordinator, Website Publisher

Developer, Software Developer, Coder, Software Coder, Software Engineer, Computer Programmer, Programmer