Set up Compass
Learn how to set up Compass and integrate it with Atlassian products and applications.
How do Compass permissions work?
Compass Premium includes permission policies to help you maintain the integrity of your component catalog at scale by restricting access to critical actions to only those who need it.
There are two different permission policies you can use to enforce who can take certain actions for things in Compass: Open and Restricted.
The open permission policy lets basic and full users take most actions in Compass without needing to be a product admin.
The restricted permission policy restricts most actions to product admins, component owners, and scorecard owners. Basic users and full users have mostly read-only access, and product admins can take all actions. The exceptions to this are for actions that component and scorecard owners can take on the things they own, and unowned components being open for all users to take actions on.
Feature | Basic user | Full user | Product admin |
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Components |
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Search and view components | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Create and import components | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Edit components | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Archive and restore components | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Publish components | No | No | Yes |
Delete components | No | No | Yes |
Create and edit dependencies | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Set up config-as-code for components | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Create a Jira issue for a scorecard on a component | No | Yes | Yes |
Create and acknowledge announcements | No | Yes | Yes |
Templates (create and use) | No | Yes | Yes |
Templates (search and view components of the template type) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Star, watch components | No | Yes | Yes |
Metrics |
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Create metrics | No | Yes | Yes |
Apply metrics to components | No | Yes | Yes |
View metrics | No | Yes | Yes |
Scorecards |
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View scorecards | No | Yes | Yes |
Create scorecards | No | Yes | Yes |
Edit scorecards | No | Yes | Yes |
Apply scorecards | No | Yes | Yes |
Manage unowned scorecards | No | Yes | Yes |
Teams and health |
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Teams (search, create, edit, view) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
CheckOps | No | Yes | Yes |
Health | No | Yes | Yes |
Custom fields |
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Create custom fields | No | Yes | Yes |
Edit custom fields | No | Yes | Yes |
Add or edit values on components | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Apps and settings |
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Apps (view, install, configure, uninstall) | No | View apps list only | Yes |
App UI extensions | No | Yes (some extensions) | Yes (all extensions) |
Notifications bell, help | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Settings | No | No | Yes |
Change permissions | No | No | Yes |
Compass emails (ownership, CheckOps, Announcements, Weekly email, etc.) | Ownership emails only | Yes | Yes |
Restricted
Feature | Basic user | Full user | Product admin |
|---|---|---|---|
Components |
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Search and view components | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Create and import components | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Edit components | Only components they own and unowned components | Yes | |
Archive and restore components | Only components they own and unowned components | Yes | |
Publish components | No | No | Yes |
Delete components | No | No | Yes |
Create and edit dependencies | No | Only for components they own and unowned components | Yes |
Set up config-as-code for components | No | Only for components they own and unowned components | Yes |
Create a Jira issue for a scorecard on a component | No | Only for: | Yes |
Create and acknowledge announcements | No | Only for components they own and unowned components | Yes |
Templates (create and use) | No | Yes | Yes |
Templates (search and view components of the template type) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Star, watch components | No | Yes | Yes |
Metrics |
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Create metrics | No | No | Yes |
Apply metrics to components | No | Only owners of the component the metric is being applied to | Yes |
View metrics | No | Yes | Yes |
Scorecards |
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View scorecards | No | Yes | Yes |
Create scorecards | No | No | Yes |
Edit scorecards | No | Only scorecards they own | Yes |
Apply scorecards | No | Only to components they own and unowned components | Yes |
Manage unowned scorecards | No | No | Yes |
Teams and health |
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Teams (search, create, edit, view) | Yes | Yes | Yes |
CheckOps | No | Yes | Yes |
Health | No | Yes | Yes |
Custom fields |
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Create custom fields | No | No | Yes |
Edit custom fields | No | No | Yes |
Add or edit values on components | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Apps and settings |
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Apps (view, install, configure, uninstall) | No | View apps list only | Yes |
App UI extensions | No | Yes (some extensions) | Yes (all extensions) |
Notifications bell, help | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Settings | No | No | Yes |
Change permissions | No | No | Yes |
Compass emails (ownership, CheckOps, Announcements, Weekly email, etc.) | Ownership emails only | Yes | Yes |
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