Account Administration tool

Master and delegate accounts

When you subscribe to the Digital Publishing Suite, one account from your company is assigned the Administrator role. This is called the master account. The master account does not appear in the Account Administration tool. You cannot remove or edit the master account.

When you use the master account to sign in to the Account Administration tool, you can assign delegate roles to other accounts. A delegate role is directly tied to the master account. Each delegate account requires its own email address. You can assign delegate roles based on an existing Adobe ID which has not been verified to work with DPS, or you can use the Account Administrator tool to create the delegate Adobe ID.

Once an Adobe ID (and its associated email address) is used for a delegate account, it is difficult to untie the Adobe ID from the delegate account.

An Adobe ID that is not assigned to any specify company account is called a designer account. Designer accounts can be created at https://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com/CreateAccount.html.

Types of delegate roles

After you add a delegate account to your company, you can assign as many as three roles to that account.

Administrator

The master account is assigned the Administrator role, but you can assign the Administrator role to other accounts. An account that is assigned an Administrator role can use the Account Administration tool.

Application

With an application role, you can associate a custom viewer with published folios. Use a different Adobe ID for each custom viewer you create. Avoid using the Adobe IDs of individuals. For example, if you publish multiple cooking magazines, you can create one Adobe ID for grill cooking (dps.grillcooking@cooktoday.com), one for Creole cooking (dps.creolecooking@cooktoday.com), and so on.

Use the Application account to create and publish folios and view analytics. When you specify the Application ID in the Viewer Builder, the custom viewer you create displays the folios published with that account.

Viewer Builder

With a Viewer Builder account, you can sign in to the Viewer Builder and create custom viewer apps. You can use the same Adobe ID for both the Application account and the Viewer Builder account, or you can create a Viewer Builder account that lets you create apps using one or more Application accounts.

Best practices for account administration

For best results, create dedicated email addresses for delegate accounts using a company domain. For example, the following accounts could be used for a company that publishes cooking magazines:

• Application accounts: dps.grillcooking@cooktoday.com, dps.creolecooking@cooktoday.com, and dps.frenchcooking@cooktoday.com

• Viewer Builder account: dps.builder@cooktoday.com

• Administrator account: dps.admin@cooktoday.com

• Delegate account with no role: dps.janedoe@cooktoday.com

In this example, one Viewer Builder account would be used to sign in and publish all three magazine viewer apps. Another approach is to assign both an Application role and a Viewer Builder role to the same account.

In this example, a special delegate account was created for Jane Doe. Jane uses this account to publish proprietary information for the company. Jane should use this account only to create content for this particular publisher.

Do not use the admin tool to create or assign Adobe IDs of individual designers to your company account unless you want to limit those accounts to using DPS tools only for your company. Individual designers can create valid Adobe IDs using the DPS Dashboard (https://digitalpublishing.acrobat.com/CreateAccount.html).

Delegates are directly affected by the master account. If a master account is closed, all delegate accounts are also closed.

Content downloaded from a delegate account is charged against the master account. Any content published by the delegates will be charged as downloads against the master account.

Using the Account Administration tool

1. Sign in to the Adobe Digital Publishing Suite Dashboard.

2. Click Account Administration.

   If the Account Administration option is dimmed, the account you used to sign in does not have Administrator privileges. If you sign in using your primary account ID and don’t have access to the Account Administration tool, please send a message to dmpubsup@adobe.com to request that your account be enabled. Once the primary account is enabled, that user can sign in and enable additional administrator accounts.

3. In the Account Administration panel, click Add New Users.

4. In the New Users dialog box, do either of the following:

   • For an existing Adobe ID, specify the Adobe ID of the user you want to modify, and click Submit. If the Adobe ID has been verified to work with DPS, it cannot be added.

   • To create a new Adobe ID, first create a valid email account. Click Create A New Adobe ID, specify the information, and click Create Account. Use this option for Application Adobe IDs such as “dps.publication@publisher.com.” Avoid using the Account Administrator tool to create Adobe IDs for individual designers.

5. In the Account Administration panel, select the user, and click Configure User.

6. Under Add Roles, specify the role type—Application Accounts, Viewer Builder Accounts, or Account Administrator—that you want to assign to the account. Click Enable, and fill out the necessary information.

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   Assigning an Application account to an Adobe ID

Specifying shared secret information

When editing the Application account, you can specify shared secret information. Shared secret information is required only for subscription viewer apps. Apple calls this information code a “shared secret,” Android calls it a “public key,” and Amazon calls it a “shared key.” For details on obtaining a shared secret, see the publishing guide associated with the platform. Use the same shared secret information for all apps. Avoid changing the shared secret.

Specifying Analytics information

When editing the Application account, you can specify information to set up an Omniture analytics account. User data of your content is automatically collected and is available to Professional and Enterprise customers. The configuration of the Analytics integration is slightly different for Professional account owners and Enterprise account owners.

Professional

Entering data in the Analytics field is optional. Professional account owners who are already SiteCatalyst customers can have all the analytics data sent to a dedicated report suite under their SiteCatalyst account. If you you do not have a SiteCatalyst account, do not enter report data. The analytics data is collected in an Adobe internal account.

Enterprise

Enterprise accounts are asked to specify a report suite name and can optionally specify the name of the company if they already have a SiteCatalyst account.

When you submit this information, it can take as long as five business days to set up Omniture analytics for your app. See Omniture analytics.

Specifying social media paywall information

If you enable social media for your viewer app, you can set up paywall information. When users click links to view articles you marked as unprotected, they can continue viewing all unprotected articles in that folio unless you set a limit, or threshold. When users hit the limit, a paywall page appears. This paywall page includes a link to a website that you specify in the Paywall Button URL as well as a brief message that you add in the Paywall Text field.