Understanding project roles

Each user has a specific role within a project. Project roles are similar to user roles but apply only within a project. For more information about user roles, see User roles and access permissions.

The Owner is the person who created the project. When other users are added to the project, they are assigned one of four project roles: Viewer, Participant, Editor, or Manager, with the permissions described below.

Notes

  • When you delete a project, other project members lose access to the resources from the project.
  • Assets, environments, and templates can be removed from a project but not permanently deleted.

How Skytap User roles affect Project role permissions

Depending on your Skytap user role, your project role permissions vary. Expand the user roles below to see what different user types can do in a project, depending on their project role settings.

For example, expand the Standard user section to see that a Standard user who is a Manager for a project can add and remove users for that project.

Though a restricted user can’t create a project, another user can give ownership of an existing project to a restricted user. For more information about changing the owner of a project, see Changing the owner of an environment, template, project, or asset.

Owner Manager Editor Participant Viewer Can do this
Access and use a running environment
Download assets
Control the power state of an environment
Create an environment from a project template
Copy environment
Copy template
Load an ISO

Power VMs don't support ISO loading. See Importing Power LPARs into Skytap.

Save environment as a template
Add, edit, and remove resources
Share resources with other projects
(as Editor or Manager in both projects)
Permanently delete VMs
Add and remove project users
Delete the project
Change project permissions
Permanently delete environments, templates, and assets that are in the project and owned by other users

 The restricted user must be an editor or manager in at least one project to perform these actions as a participant. For example, if the user is a participant in project A and an editor in project B, the user can create an environment from a template in project A. The new environment is automatically added to project B (where the user has permission to add resources). Restricted users can't own environments, templates, or assets outside of a project.

Owner Manager Editor Participant Viewer Can do this
Access and use a running environment
Download assets
Control the power state of an environment
Create an environment from a project template
Copy environment
Copy template
Load an ISO

Power VMs don't support ISO loading. See Importing Power LPARs into Skytap.

Save environment as a template
Add, edit, and remove resources
Share resources with other projects
Permanently delete VMs
Add and remove project users
Delete the project
Change project permissions
Permanently delete environments, templates, and assets that are in the project and owned by other users

Owner Manager Editor Participant Viewer Can do this
Access and use a running environment
Download assets
Control the power state of an environment
Create an environment from a project template
Copy environment
Copy template
Load an ISO

Power VMs don't support ISO loading. See Importing Power LPARs into Skytap.

Save environment as a template
Add, edit, and remove resources
Share resources with other projects
Permanently delete VMs
Add and remove project users
Delete the project
Change project permissions
Permanently delete environments, templates, and assets that are in the project and owned by other users

Skytap Administrators have all permissions for every project.

Owner Manager Editor Participant Viewer Can do this
Access and use a running environment
Download assets
Control the power state of an environment
Create an environment from a project template
Copy environment
Load an ISO

Power VMs don't support ISO loading. See Importing Power LPARs into Skytap.

Save environment as a template
Copy template
Add, edit, and remove resources
Share resources with other projects
Permanently delete VMs
Add and remove project users
Delete the project
Change project permissions
Permanently delete environments, templates, and assets that are in the project and owned by other users

See also