CDF: User home screen should be configurable and different from Administrator home screen

Related products: Authentication and Access Management

CDF should have different home screen when a Read Only User logs in and when a user with Administrator privilege's logs in (with R/W access). Content on CDF home screen after logon, should load based on the user privilege's. What each user has access to needs to be configurable by the Administrators. Only Read/Write users (and administrators) should see the full set of options in CDF. Where as a Read Only user should only see the specific functionality tabs assigned to them, like “Explore Data”,  “Charts” etc.

Each project should have the ability to configure the default set for Read Only Users and then Administrators should be able to add/remove access to different functionalities, as determined by the organizations data management policies.

Hello Ram,

 

Thanks for you feedback. We largely agree. You can look for improvements in both the landing page and other parts of the user experience towards the second half of the year. Right now our focus is on improving a few foundational parts of the user experience (unifying login across Cognite applications, and improving data exploration), but we have a long list of other things to work on, and the landing page is near the top of that list.

The ability for administrators to remotely control the default set of functionality for “read only users” (which is a concept that does not really exist in Cognite Data Fusion) is an interesting one. So far we have not seen a large interest in this, and it would probably mean revamping our access management setup in order to do well. But I’ll leave the thread open for anyone else to chime in with similar sentiments.

 

Best Regards

Terje Loken

Product Manager, Cognite Data Fusion


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