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The Tasks of Administrators

Each type of user has different functions. Encyclopedia administrators oversee the models and subsets in the Host Encyclopedia. They can use all CA Gen utilities and generate all reports for all models, subsets, or users.

An organization can have more than one encyclopedia administrator, but only one or two is customary. The same organization can have many model owners, but only one individual or group in charge of each model. The organization can also have many modelers, all of whom can work on one or more models or subsets.

In general, users can grant authority equal to or less than their own if they have Add User authority. For example, encyclopedia administrators can create other encyclopedia administrators, and those modelers with create model authority can grant that authority to users that they add. There is one exception to the equal to or less rule: only an encyclopedia administrator can grant add user authority. Modelers with add user authority can add users but cannot grant add user authority.

Encyclopedia administrators have the authority to perform all Host Encyclopedia functions to all models within the Host Encyclopedia. Among the tasks they can perform are:

• Define the access rights of users (modelers) to models and subsets.
• Create, read, update and delete models and subsets.
• Manage models and subsets (including different versions of each).
• Generate reports of model and subset data.
• Import and export models to the Public Interface.
• Generate databases.
• Construct host application systems.
• Convert models.
• Generate code from models.
• Migrate objects from one model to another.

Encyclopedia administrators can grant the authority to perform most of these (except granting add user authority) and other tasks to encyclopedia modelers (other encyclopedia administrators get full authority).

Note: For specifics about the authority required for Host Encyclopedia functions, see the chapter How to Set up Security.