What are Roles, Rights and Projects in Simplifier?

On your Low-Code journey with Simplifier, you will experience that organizing the applications and users on your Simplifier instance is a crucial task as an operator. Not every user should be allowed to view and edit every application, and a developer only wants to see the applications and artifacts that are important to them, not every artifact on the platform.

To tackle this task, Simplifer provides a set of tools that we are going to explain on the following pages.

Personas and Responsibilities

Several different types of users will be working on a Simplifier instance. These types of users require specific rights and permissions on the platform.

User Type	Description	Tasks
IT	Works in the IT department. Professional knowledge in operation and maintenance of a platform within the company’s IT environment.	Operate the platform Monitoring Security Deployment
Pro Developer	Professional IT developer. Builds more complex processes, integrates backends and user authentication mechanisms.	Process architecture Build applications of middle to high complexity Collaborate with Citizen Devs and business departments Support Quality Reviews
Citizen Developer	Works in a business department and wants to implement their own applications to facilitate workflows.	Build applications of low to middle complexity Test and usage KPIs
End User	The user that the application has been built for. Can be another employee that works in the same company, or an external user.	Use the application Report errors

It’s important that every Simplifier user is provided with the necessary rights to access or edit artifacts. However, it’s equally important that a user does not have rights that they don’t need or that they are not allowed to have. For example, an End User should view applications, but should not be able to edit or even delete them.

With Projects in Simplifier, you can manage a user’s permissions in a convenient way.

Projects

Projects help you to organize the applications on your Simplifier instance. A Project can contain multiple Applications, Connectors, Widgets, Business Objects, Templates, etc.

An artifact (e.g., an Application or a Connector) can be assigned to multiple Projects.

Encapsulating the applications and other artifacts in Projects helps you in several ways:

When transporting, you can simply transport all items in a Project at once, so you do not need to search for the applications that you want to transport manually
Users only have access to the artifacts in their Projects
Projects provide refined user and role management options

Learn more about Projects: Project documentation.

Roles

In Simplifier, we use the so-called Roles to manage user permissions. A Role contains specific permissions, for example, the permission to view a specific Application or to execute a specific Connector. A user can be assigned one or more roles. The permission in the user’s roles then define which artifacts they can view/execute on the Simplifier instance and in an Application.

Learn more about Roles and Permissions: role documentation and permission documentation.

There are three types of Roles in Simplifier:

Global Roles are Roles that belong the Simplifier instance in general, whereas Project and Business Roles belong to a certain Project. On the next pages, we will describe each Role type in more detail.