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title: "Site Factory Management Console roles"
date: "2024-02-14T06:18:38+00:00"
summary: "Explore Site Factory Management Console roles and permissions for efficient website management. Learn about platform admin, site builder, developer, release engineer, and content editor roles, their responsibilities, and access levels for various tasks."
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To manage your Site Factory environment and websites, you must sign in as a user with the appropriate permissions for your desired task. Site Factory bundles permissions into roles, which enable administrators to assign a collection of permissions to an account, instead of assigning them one at a time. Your account can be assigned one or more of the following Site Factory roles in the Site Factory Management Console:

*   [Platform admin](/site-factory/manage/users/admin/platform-admin): Provides responsibility for Site Factory deployment, including management of websites and OpenID accounts.
    
*   [Site builder](/site-factory/manage/users/admin/site-builder): Allows for website and content creation and management.
    
*   [Developer](/site-factory/manage/users/admin/developer): Enables updating development and staging environments with new and updated code.
    
*   [Release engineer](/site-factory/manage/users/admin/release-engineer): Grants access to the production environment for code pushes and update status monitoring.
    
*   [Content editor](/site-factory/manage/users/admin/content-editor): Allows for editing content on the websites.
    

You can also [assign websites to groups](/site-factory/manage/website/manage), not only to roles, and manage access to the websites by adding users to a group. For more information, see [Managing site group users](/site-factory/manage/website/users).

Website and site collection management permissions
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Permission

_platform admin_

_site builder_

_developer_

_release engineer_

_content editor_

View websites

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**✓**

Sign in

**✓**

**✓**

**✓**

**✓**

**✓**

Create, [manage](/site-factory/manage/website), and delete websites

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

Manage [domains](/site-factory/manage/domains)

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

Manage [site groups](/site-factory/manage/website/groups-manage)

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

Create [site collections](/site-factory/manage/website/site-coll)

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

Remove [site collections](/site-factory/manage/website/site-coll)

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

Set the [primary website](/site-factory/manage/website/site-coll#acsf-create-new-primary-site) in a site collection

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

Specify [login authentication mode](/site-factory/manage/login-mode)

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

Specify global [terms of service](/site-factory/manage/preferences/tos)

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

Clear [website caches](/site-factory/manage/website/cache#acsf-clearing-cache)

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

View [website statistics](/site-factory/manage/preferences/usage)

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

User management permissions
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Permission

_platform admin_

_site builder_

_developer_

_release engineer_

_content editor_

Create [user accounts](/site-factory/manage/users)

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

Delete, block, and unblock users

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

Assign roles to users

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

Find users

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

Workflow management permissions
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Permission

_platform admin_

_site builder_

_developer_

_release engineer_

_content editor_

View environment’s [site update status](/site-factory/workflow/deployments/process#site-factory-track-deploy)

**✓**

**𐄂**

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

View environment’s [staging update status](/site-factory/workflow/staging#acsf-verify-deploy)

**✓**

**𐄂**

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

[Deploy code](/site-factory/workflow/deployments/steps#acsf-deploy-to-production) to development and staging environments

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

Release code to production environment

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**✓**

**𐄂**

Enable [installation profiles](/site-factory/workflow/profiles)

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

Backups, tasks, and jobs permissions
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Permission

_platform admin_

_site builder_

_developer_

_release engineer_

_content editor_

View [scheduled jobs](/site-factory/manage/preferences/jobs)

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

View [task logs](/site-factory/monitor/tasklog)

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

[View website backups](/site-factory/manage/website/backup#acsf-view-available-backups)

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

[Create website backups](/site-factory/manage/website/backup#acsf-create-backup)

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

[Download website backups](/site-factory/manage/website/backup#acsf-download-backup-files)

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

[Restore website backups](/site-factory/manage/website/restore) to another website

**✓**

**✓**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

**𐄂**

You can configure the _Manage domains_ and _Set the primary site in a site collection_ permissions to limit them to the _platform admin_ role. For more information, see [Managing user permissions](/site-factory/manage/preferences/sf-perm).

Comparing website roles and Site Factory Management Console roles
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Site Factory and the websites in an Site Factory deployment can have different sets of user roles. For example, a user can have the _platform admin_ role on Site Factory, but remain a standard registered member on one of the Site Factory websites.

A user’s role on the website governs the level of access the user has on the website. A _platform admin_ on Site Factory would also need administrator permissions on the website itself to maintain a high level of access.

You can use centralized role management to map Site Factory _platform admin_ and _site builder_ roles to hosted website roles. For example, if you have a role on your hosted websites named content manager, you can specify that all users with the _platform admin_ role also have the content manager role on each hosted website. For more information, see [Assigning hosted site roles during sign-in](/site-factory/manage/preferences/centralized).