Asset Manager user roles

Learn how to manage users and assets in your project through Unity Cloud's role based system.

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Unity Asset Manager roles and permissions build on the default user types that users have within your Unity Cloud Organization for viewing and managing Unity Cloud projects. They can be split into two areas:

  • To manage projects or users you need an Owner or Manager user type at organization level or project level.

    • For example an organization Owner or Manager can create projects and invite users to the organization or project.
    • A project Owner or Manager can add and remove users from a project, but can't create projects.
  • To manage assets you need an Asset Manager role at either an organization or project level.

    • For example, at organization level an Asset Manager Admin can view and manage assets across all projects, and create custom metadata types for the organization.
    • Project Contributors can add, remove, and edit assets only for the specific projects that they have access to.

Unity Cloud user types

To add users to your organization, you need the Owner user type or the Manager user type for the organization. An organization Owner or Manager can give those users any user type or role they want as part of this process.

If you want someone to have control or access to projects but not access to your whole organization then assign them a project role. Project Owner or Managers can add or remove users in a project. Project Users can only get access to a Unity Cloud project through their project add-on role, for example specific Asset Manager roles. Read more about user types, roles and permissions.

To protect intellectual property or to simplify the organization's project list, restrict the visibility of some projects to organization owners, organization managers, and project members.

Asset Manager roles

Asset Manager roles are designed to give organization members access and permissions in projects that are enabled in Asset Manager.

Organization-level roles

The Asset Manager Admin role gives the organization user full asset permissions over all Asset Manager projects in an organization. Organization Owners and Managers by default get all permissions in the Asset Manager Admin role and do not need any additional roles.

Asset Manager Admin
Read all Asset Manager projects in an Organization
Create, read, update, and delete all assets in all projects in an Organization
Create, read, update, and delete Metadata field definitions in an Organization
Create, read, update, and delete Version Label definitions in an Organization
Add and delete files from Unity VCS to Cloud Asset

Project-level roles

Asset Manager project level roles only apply to individual Asset Manager projects in your Organization.

ContributorConsumerViewer
Create, update, and delete collections
Create, update, and delete assets
Discover assets
Download assets
View assets

Verify your permissions

To understand your permissions for in an Asset Manager Project, follow these steps:

  1. Sign in to Unity Cloud.
  2. To verify that you are working in the correct Unity Cloud Organization, in the upper right of the window, next to the user menu, identify the name of the Organization.
  3. On the left-side panel, select Projects and then select the project for which you want to review permissions.
  4. Under Project Details, select Project members.
  5. Search for your name or email address. Your Asset Manager role appears in the Roles column.