Administration Guide
ROPARC has two administration surfaces, tied together by a configuration inheritance system. This guide explains which one to use for a given task.
The two admin surfaces
- Workarea Administration — the Settings page inside a workarea. This is where workarea administrators configure how that workarea works: work item types, document types, link types, enumerations, workflows, verification, variants, suspect links, and members. Requires the Admin role in the workarea.
- Site Administration — the /admin area for the whole installation: user accounts, workareas, workarea groups, roles, and global configuration. Requires site administration access.
Where workarea groups fit
Workarea groups don’t have a separate admin area. They are managed from Administration → Site → Workarea Groups in Site Administration: opening a group’s settings shows the same configuration tabs as workarea Settings, applied at the group tier. Every workarea in the group inherits that configuration — see Configuration Inheritance for how the three tiers (site → workarea group → workarea) merge and which definitions win.
Who can do what
| Task | Where | Required access |
|---|---|---|
| Configure types, workflows, enumerations for one workarea | Workarea Settings | Admin role in the workarea |
| Share configuration across several workareas | Site Administration → Workarea Groups | Site administration access |
| Manage user accounts, roles, and user groups | Site Administration → Users, Roles, User Groups | Site administration access |
| Set installation-wide (global) configuration | Site Administration → Global Configuration | Site administration access |
For the permission model itself — roles, permissions, and scopes — start at Roles & Permissions.