Table of contents
1.
Introduction
2.
Roles in Postman
2.1.
Team Roles
2.1.1.
Super Admin
2.1.2.
Admin
2.1.3.
Billing
2.1.4.
Developer
2.1.5.
Community Manager
2.1.6.
API Network Manager
2.2.
Workspace Roles
2.3.
Element-based roles
2.3.1.
Collection Roles
2.3.2.
API Roles
2.3.3.
Environment Roles
2.3.4.
Mock Server Roles
2.3.5.
Monitor Roles
3.
Frequently Asked Questions
3.1.
What is the difference between admin and Super admin?
3.2.
Which administrator role has the highest access?
3.3.
What does Postman's Basic Authentication mean?
4.
Conclusion
Last Updated: Mar 27, 2024

Defining Roles in Postman

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Introduction

An essential part of working together on a project is efficiency. We all want smooth working between the members of our team. To do this, we need to assign members roles, so they know their part. It makes the members clear of their parts and their allowance in a team. However, we know that Postman has multiple parts where a different contributing method is needed. Let it be teams, workspaces, APIs or environments. We have other ways to give control over all sorts of takes. In Postman, we have all sets of combinations of assigned roles. In this article, we will talk about defining roles in Postman.

Defining Roles in Postman

Roles in Postman

In Postman, access to team members is given according to needs. Following this, we can assign roles to the members. We will read below about the options available to us on giving roles.

Team Roles

We may define Postman access at the team level with the Admin role. To do this, we have Postman's role-based access control system. We can use it to specify team resource visibility, limit our development workflow, and grant administrative and billing people access. Each team member must have at least one role and may hold numerous roles at the same time.

Selecting roles for team members.

We can give team members one or more role types based on the functions they need:

Super Admin

The Super Admin manages all team parts, such as team settings, members, roles, and resources in public, team, or private workspaces. This role lets team members do anything that the Admin, Billing, API Network Manager, Community Manager,  and Developer roles can do. We can get them in Enterprise plans only.

Admin

An Admin controls the settings and members of the team.

Billing

The one here oversees team finances and plans. A Super Admin, a teammate in a billing job, or an Admin welcoming a new team member can all grant billing roles. Get in touch with the Support Center if doing so is not feasible.

Developer

Access to all workspaces and team resources is available to developers.

Community Manager

The Community Manager Controls how public workspaces and team profiles are displayed. We can get them in the Professional and Enterprise plan only.

API Network Manager

The Private API Network gets managed by an API Network Manager, who also approves or rejects requests to add APIs. A Super Admin or another team member with the API Network Manager role can give this role to a user. We can get them in Enterprise plans only.

Workspace Roles

Workspaces let us arrange our Postman projects and communicate with coworkers. We can combine our projects. The workspace will be the sole authoritative source for all associated APIs, collections, environments, mocks, monitors, and other connected elements.

Admin - The Admin controls workplace settings and resources.

Editor - The Editor is the creator and editor of workspace resources

Viewer- The Viewer can view, fork, and export resources in the workspace.

Assigning the Workspace roles

Element-based roles

Team members can be given roles determining their access to Postman collections, APIs, mock servers, and monitors at the element level.

Collection Roles

In Postman collections, we can assign the Editor and Viewer roles.

We can organise our API development and testing operations using Postman Collections. Additionally, we may create collections from API schemas, share them, and do more.

Editor - The Editor has direct access to editing collections.

Viewer- The Viewer can view, fork, and export collections.

Assigning the element based roles

API Roles

Editor and Viewer are the two roles that can get assigned in Postman APIs. Thanks to the Postman API, data stored in our Postman account may be easily accessed programmatically.

Editor - The Editor has direct API editing capacity.

Viewer - The Viewer can check and export APIs.

Giving the API roles

Environment Roles

Editor and Viewer are the roles that can be given in Postman environments. A set of variables called an environment is available in Postman requests. When working in a team, environments can be used to control who has access to shared Postman data and group-related sets of values.

Editor -The editor has Editing and environment management capabilities

Viewer - The Viewer is Capable of viewing and using environments.

Assigning the Environment Roles

Mock Server Roles

Editor and Viewer are the two roles that we can assign in Postman mock servers. We can develop or test against an API before it is ready for production by utilising mock servers, which simulate an API by returning predetermined data or without using production data.

Editor - The Editor can manage mock servers and also edit them.

Viewer - The Viewer can see mock servers and related metadata.

Managing the Mock server riles

Monitor Roles

Editor and Viewer are the roles that can be given in Postman monitors. Thanks to Postman Monitors, we have constant access to information on the functionality and health of the APIs.

Editor -An Editor can View and tracks metrics, jobs, runs, and metadata. The monitor can be run, updated, deleted, paused, and resumed.

Viewer - A viewer can view the metrics, jobs, metadata and runs related to monitoring.

Managing the Monitor roles.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the difference between admin and Super admin?

A super admin has the power to add and remove subscribers as well as other admins. To maintain system security, if there are more than two super admins, only the last two can be deleted. On the other hand, an admin can only be assigned by a super admin.

Which administrator role has the highest access?

The Super Admin user has complete control over our entire network and the highest level of access and responsibility above a standard blog Administrator.

What does Postman's Basic Authentication mean?

The simplest and most fundamental kind of authorisation is called Basic Access Authentication. Just a username and password are needed to check any user's permission. That is why we call it basic access authentication. In the AuthorizationAuthorization header, the username and password are given as header values.

Conclusion

In the blog, we read about defining roles in Postman. Roles help us stay more apparent in our work and make the team more efficient. We also read about the different roles available and their limits of creation. Check out blogs and find out about React Native State and Installing and Running Newman in Postman. If you’re interested you can find out How to Collaborate on Postman or about Managing your team and user groups in Postman. Have a look at our blogs on APIs and API Testing to explore. You can discover all about web testing too. Explore Coding Ninjas Studio to find more exciting stuff. Happy Coding!

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