Understanding Media Portal roles

Your administrator determines which companies you can access, as well as which folders and files you can access. If you have access to more than one company, the names of the companies appear in the Select Company menu.

Note: To find out which user role has been assigned to you, click Setup. The Setup screen lists your user role.

Select a company to work with

Choose a company name from the Select Company menu, located in the Global Navigation bar.

Folders for storing assets in the company appear in the Folder pane. You can work with the assets in the company. However, your user role determines the type of work you do.

About user roles and privileges

Media Portal provides the following roles, each with different access rights and permissions. When you sign up a user, you assign the user one of the following roles:

Media Portal Administrator
Can add and remove administrators, contributors, and users. The administrator can also set group access rights, manage FTP accounts, assign corporate-approved conversion formats (presets), send e-mail to Media Portal users, and view portal usage and storage reporting.
Note: The Media Portal Administrator and Scene7 Administrator role are the same.

Media Portal User
Has access to folders and files. A user can only browse, preview, and download files. This role is suitable for channel or service partners that need access to your corporate-approved assets.

Media Portal Contributor
Can upload, preview, and browse files and metadata in areas to which an administrator has granted permissions. A contributor cannot download files. Contributors can edit metadata, change the names of files, move files to different folders, and delete files.

Media Portal Contributor-User
Has access to folders and files. A contributor-user can browse, preview, download, and upload images and metadata. Contributor-users can change the names of files, move files to different folders, and delete files.

This table describes the tasks that users with different roles can do. Administrators and contributor-users can do all the tasks listed in this table:

Task

User

Contributor

Contributor-User

Browse folders and files

X

X

X

Browse metadata

X

X

X

Preview files

X

X

X

Search for files

X

X

X

Upload files to Scene7 Publishing System

X

X

Edit and import asset metadata

X

X

Create, rename, and delete folders

X

X

Export asset metadata

X

X

Change file names

X

X

Move files to different folders

X

X

Rename files

X

X

Delete files

X

X

Export (download) files from SPS

X

X

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