Admins in Looker hold the keys to the entire Looker kingdom; but not all admin tasks should require help from a Looker admin. For example:
Looker's new advanced granular permissions can help streamline your workflows, boost security, and get more done faster. Delegate specific admin tasks to the right teams without compromising control.
Feature Benefits
These new, more granular permissions enable admins to empower other types of users to manage and control elements of the Looker experience. This can provide benefits such as:
Feature Snapshot
Some of these new permissions are nested within the existing permission hierarchy in Looker. For example, in order for a user to be granted the ability to manage groups, they have to have the ability to see users in Looker. And to be able to manage roles, they have to have to be granted the ability to manage groups.
Others, like the new embed permissions, are top level permissions that do not require other access. An embed developer can be granted the ability to manage embed settings and themes without gaining access to any data.
Check out our documentation to see the full list of permission options available. And if you are starting to use these new permissions, be sure to let us know how it’s going in the comments!