Reference: Available Permissions
See Concept: Permission Sets for overview information and Create Permission Sets for step-by-step instructions. Some permissions expose data or secured dimensions protected by access rules. See Transition to Access Rules for details.
Sheet Permissions
Permissions | Lets Users | Prerequisite Permissions | General Setup |
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Access Sheets
| Open sheets pages from the main menu.
View level-assigned sheets. | ||
Editable Sheet Access
| Enter and edit data on level-assigned sheets that they can view. | Access Sheets | |
Edit Dimension on Sheet
| Add dimension values to the dimension drop-down list of modeled and cube sheets when the sheet allows it. | Editable Sheet Access.
When you add dimensions to a sheet in the model, click Edit dimension on sheet . | |
Download to Excel
| Download a sheet of any type in Excel format or use printable view. | Access Sheets | |
Write-back from External Sources
| View and edit intersections that are enabled for Writeback and submit any changes to Adaptive Planning. | Access Sheets |
Report Permissions
Permissions | Lets Users | Prerequisite Permissions | General Setup |
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Access Reports
| Open reports pages from the main menu.
View, download PDFs, and create snapshots of reports that others have shared with them. | ||
Create Personal Reports
| Create reports of any type for personal use and store in any folder. | Access Reports | |
Create Shared Reports
| Save a report to shared folders so that others can view it and edit it.
Make changes to any shared reports that they originally created. | Access Reports, Create Personal Reports | |
Modify All Reports
| Make changes to shared reports created by other users.
Save changes to shared reports so other users will automatically see the changes. Delete a report or line note authored by another user. A report displays as grayed out if you:
| Access Reports | |
Download to Excel
| Download a report of any type in Excel format from:
| Access Reports | |
Manage Shared Report Folders
| Rename, delete, and create Shared Report folders. All users with report access see these changes. | Access Reports | |
Send Notifications
| Send notifications to other users for shared reports of any type.
Create personal email groups to send reports to groups of users. | Access Reports | |
Upload Files
| Upload files from their computers and save them. See: Upload Static Report Files
| Access Reports | |
Create Report Schedules
| Create their own schedules. | ||
Manage All Report Schedules
| Enables administrators to:
| Create Report Schedules | |
Access OfficeConnect
| Use Adaptive Planning OfficeConnect for Excel, Word, and PowerPoint to create reports, documents, and presentations using Adaptive Planning data. | Access Reports | Purchase and enable OfficeConnect in Administration > Setup. |
Access Workday for Google Sheets
| Use the Workday for Google Sheets add-on to create reports in Google Sheets using Adaptive Planning data. | Access Reports | Install Workday for Google Sheets. See Install Workday for Google Sheets
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Dashboards Permissions
Permissions | Lets Users | Prerequisite Permissions | General Setup |
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Access Dashboards
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| Request Dashboards | |
Edit Dashboards
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View Snapshots
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Create and Schedule Snapshots
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Edit Company Dashboards
| Enables users without additional admin or modeling permissions to create calculated metrics and to change drill options for accounts.
Users with the Admin Access or Model includes: Sheets, accounts, dimensions, and formulas permissions can already create calculated metrics and change drill options. | Access Dashboards |
Scenario Permissions
Permissions | Lets Users | Prerequisite Permissions | General Setup |
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Access Scenarios
| Open Scenarios from the main menu. | ||
Create Scenarios
| Create new scenarios based on plan versions. | Access Scenario Manager | |
Share Scenarios
| Share scenarios with collaborators If you manage Adaptive Planning security through Workday Core, you must manually enable the Share Scenarios action. For all other instances, we automatically enable the Share Scenarios permission for any permission set that has Manage Scenarios. | Create Scenarios | |
Merge Scenarios
| Merge changes in the scenario to the base version. |
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Manage Scenarios
| Access the Global folder from the Scenarios page. Share, merge, manage submissions, and discard changes. If you have the Download Changes permission, you can also download changes for all scenarios.We block users with the Manage Scenarios permission from:
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Download Scenario Changes
| Download changes made to the scenario into an Excel file. | Access Scenario Manager |
Integration Permissions
Permissions | Lets Users | Prerequisite Permissions | General Setup |
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Integration Operator
| Open integration pages from the main menu.
Execute saved Integration tasks. See the Execution History. | ||
Data Designer
Not restricted by access rules or level ownership | Set up data sources, loaders, tasks, and user permissions for Integration.
Run APIs that load data to all levels, accounts, and dimensions. | Integration Operator | |
Integration Developer
Not restricted by access rules or level ownership | Use JavaScript to define the behavior for each of the standard data source actions (test connection, import structure, import data, and preview data).
View all accounts, levels, and dimensions in the staging tables. | Data Designer |
Modeling Permissions
Permissions | Lets Users | Prerequisite Permissions | General Setup |
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Model Management Access
Not restricted by access rules or owning levels | Select additional Model Access permissions to give the user access to Modeling. | ||
Model includes: sheets, accounts, dimensions, and formulas
| Open modeling pages from the main menu.
Create, edit, and delete dimensions, dimension values, and dimension attributes. Create, edit, and delete GL, metric, and custom accounts, and account attributes. Create, edit, delete, and assign level-assigned sheets and user-assigned sheets. Open Formulas from the main menu.Write shared formulas of your model. View all dimensions and accounts. Create dashboard metrics. View and run all tasks in Design Integrations. | Model Management Access
(Optional) Integration Operator > Data Designer to view all parts of the model in Integration in the data designer | |
Organization Structure
Restricted by owned levels with the Owned Levels Only option. | Open the levels page from the Levels and Dimensions menu in Modeling.
Create, edit, and delete levels. View, create, and change associations (conditional). Assign level owners.
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Admin Access > Users to manage associations. | |
Versions
| Open the versions page from the Versions and Time menu in Modeling.
Create, edit, delete, and hide versions. | Model Management Access | |
Time
| Open the time page from the Versions and Time menu in Modeling.
Create locales, add and edit labels, and extend the defined calendar for an instance. | Model Management Access | |
Configure Calendar
| Import new calendars to replace existing calendars.
Clear standard data in the model. | Time | This permission doesn’t display if you’ve purchased DashboardsCPM. |
Announcements
| Open Announcements Pages from the Others menu in Modeling.
Create, edit, delete, and share announcements with other users. | Model Management Access
Access Reports | |
Assumptions
| Open the assumptions page from the Accounts menu in Modeling.
Create, edit, and delete assumption accounts. | ||
Structure Import
| Import level, account, attributes, and dimension structures from Modeling menus. | Model Management Access
Model includes: sheets, accounts, dimensions, and formulas | |
Allocation Rules
| Open the allocations rules page from the Rules menu in Modeling.
Create, edit, and delete Allocation Rules. | Model Management Access | |
Transactions
| Open the transactions page from the Others menu in Modeling.
Define the columns and fields of transactions. | Model Management Access | |
Currencies
| Open the currencies page from the Others menu in Modeling.
Create, edit, and delete currencies to use in the model. Create, edit, and delete exchange rate types for the currencies. Enter rates in the exchange rate sheets. | Model Management Access | |
Predictive Forecaster Not restricted by access rules or owned levels . | Open Predictive Forecaster from the Intelligent Planning menu in Modeling .
Create, edit, and run machine learning predictions into plan versions. | Model Management Access | |
Consolidation
| Administer Consolidation.
Open the elimination rules page from the Rules menu in Modeling.Create, edit, and delete elimination rules. Open the consolidation percentages page from the Others menu in Modeling. | Model Management Access | Purchase and enable Consolidation |
Publish Financial Plan into Workday
Not restricted by owned levels | Publish financial plan versions to Workday as drafts. | Model Management Access | Set up Adaptive Planning for Workday. See Steps: Configure Adaptive Planning for HCM and Financials.. |
Publish Headcount Plan into Workday
Not restricted by owned levels | Publish headcount plan versions to Workday as drafts. | Model Management Access | Set up Adaptive Planning for Workday. See Steps: Configure Adaptive Planning for HCM and Financials. |
Publish Workforce Action Plan into Workday
Not restricted by owned levels | Publish workforce action plan versions to Workday as drafts. | Model Management Access | Set up Adaptive Planning for Workday. See Steps: Configure Adaptive Planning for HCM and Financials. |
View All Publish Histories for Enabled Plan Types
Not restricted by owned levels | View the publishment histories for plans published by any user. Used for auditing purposes. | Model Management Access and at least one of the Publish plan type permissions. | Set up Adaptive Planning for Workday. See Steps: Configure Adaptive Planning for HCM and Financials. |
Planning Center
| Open the Planning Center from the Modeling area to view:
| Model Management Access. | |
Access Ask Workday for Adaptive Planning
| Use generative AI to ask questions and receive answers within Adaptive Planning using natural language. Ask Workday also provides:
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Access Planning Agent
| Access the Planning Agent from Ask Workday | Access Ask Workday for Adaptive Planning | |
Data Exploration Skills for Planning Agent
| Access the Planning Agent: Data Exploration skill from Ask Workday | Access Ask Workday for Adaptive Planning Access Planning Agent |
Administration Permissions
Permissions | Lets Users | Prerequisite Permissions | General Setup |
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Admin Access
Not restricted by access rules or level ownership. | Select additional Admin permissions to give the user access to Administration. | ||
Users
| Open Administration from the Navigation bar.
Create, edit, and delete users and their profiles. Change user passwords and IDs. Assign owned levels to users (conditional). Assign permission sets to users (conditional). Create access rules. View, add, change associations (conditional) | Admin Access
(Optional) Model Management Access > Organization Structure to assign levels to users or to manage associations. (Optional) Admin Access > Permission Sets to assign permission sets to users | |
Permission Sets
| Open Administration from the Navigation bar.
Create and delete permission sets. Change permissions of permission sets. Assign permission sets to and remove permission sets from users (conditional). | Admin Access
(Optional) Admin Access > Users to assign permission sets to users. | |
Manage Global User Groups
| Open Administration from the Navigation bar.
Create, edit, and delete user groups. Add and remove users from groups. | Admin Access | |
General Setup
| Open the System menu in Administration.
Update General Setup of the instance. Enable or disable features in the instance. Change the visual preferences, such as the company logo. Enable or disable the use of avatars in user profiles. | Admin Access |
Hubs, Configurable Workflows, and Advanced Workflows Permissions
Permissions | Lets Users | Prerequisite Permissions | General Setup |
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Access Hubs
| View the Adaptive Planning hubs that are shared with them | Access Dashboards | |
Edit Hubs
| Configure the Adaptive Planning hubs that are shared with them | Access Hubs Access Dashboards | |
Manage Workflows
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Legacy Process Tracker Permissions
These permissions enable you to use the legacy process tracker functionality. If you enable the configurable workflows feature, we disable and remove these permissions. See Steps: Set Up Configurable Workflows.
Permissions | Lets Users | Prerequisite Permissions | General Setup |
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Access Process Tracker
| Open Processes from the Navigation bar.
View processes and the pending and completed tasks assigned to others and assigned to self. | Purchase Workflow | |
Complete Tasks Assigned to Self
| Mark their own tasks complete or incomplete. | Access Process Tracker | |
Complete Any Task
| Mark anyone's tasks complete:
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Manage Tasks
| Create, edit, and assign tasks within a process to anyone.
Add or remove attachments. | Complete Any Task | |
Manage Processes
| Create and edit processes for tasks. | Manage Tasks |
Import and Export Permissions
Permissions | Lets Users | Prerequisite Permissions | General Setup |
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Access Consolidation
Not restricted by access rules Restricted by level ownership | Open Consolidation from the Navigation menu.
Create and submit journal entries for owned levels. View intercompany elimination rules. View all accounts at owned levels. | Purchase and enable Consolidation in your instance. | |
Access Salary Detail
| See salary data (in sheets, reports, and accounts) that are otherwise hidden.
Open and enter data in modeled sheets with the salary detail setting. See and edit the values on splits of GL and custom accounts with the salary detail settings. Edit salary detail settings for modeled sheets. Edit value lookups on modeled sheets. | (Optional) To see sheets, the user also needs Sheet Access.
(Optional) To see reports, the user also needs Report Access. (Optional) To edit salary detail settings, the user also needs Model Management Access > Model includes: sheets, accounts, dimensions, and formulas | |
Privileged Actuals Access
| Select any actual versions from the version selector in Sheets.
Edit data in actual version sheets. | Sheet Access | |
Access Transactions
| Drill from sheets, reports, and cell explorer to view imported transaction data. | To see sheets, the user also needs Sheet Access.
To see reports, the user also needs Report Access. | Purchase the Transaction module |
System Audit Access
Not restricted by access rules or owned levels | Build pattern and transaction reports (conditional).
Build and run audit trail reports (conditional). Search cell notes (conditional). | Access Reports to build pattern and transaction reports.
Access Sheets to run audit trail reports and search cell notes. | Enable Access Rules |
See Who is Online
| See how many users are currently logged in to the instance and who they are. | ||
NetSuite Setup
| Configure the initial NetSuiteBasic connection to link an AdaptivePlanning instance to a NetSuiteaccount in Administration. | Purchase NetSuite Basic | |
Drill into Net SuiteImported Numbers
| Drill into numbers imported fromNetSuite. | Sheet Access | |
Drill into WorkdayImported Numbers
| Drill into numbers imported from Workday. | Sheet Access | Set up Adaptive Planning for Workday. See Steps: Configure Adaptive Planning for HCM and Financials. |
Export Budgets To NetSuite
| Export data directly into the NetSuite budget module. Requires Export Capabilities permission. | Export Capabilities | Purchase NetSuite Basic |
Approve Levels
Restricted by level ownership | Open Workflow from the navigation bar.
Approve or reject levels and sheets in Workflow. | Purchase and enable Workflow for your instance. | |
SAML
| Manage SAMLSingle Sign-On settings. | Purchase SAML option | |
Import Capabilities
| Import to locations that you can access. | ||
Import To All Locations
| Import to all areas, regardless of location or level access. Edit data at all intersections of the model through an API import or a regular import. | ||
Erase Data
| Erase actuals or plan data across Adaptive Planning, including in locked levels. Erase Data overrides Access Rules and level ownership restrictions. You can only delete data from calculated accounts with data entry override. | Import to All Locations | |
Export Capabilities
| Export from locations that you can access |