A category can represent different departments or areas of interest within your organization. For example, you might have several applications in the customer service departments and other applications in the finance department. You can create a customer service category and a user group with privileges for customer service personnel. Assign the customer service category to the customer service user group to enable access for those users to all applications that are relevant to their work.

Categories also control access to dependent entities, such as events and data in the Dashboard reports.

When the operator creates applications and topics, when the administrator creates connections, and when the developer creates workflows, they assign permissions to the entities they create by selecting a category from the available categories. The categories that the operator or the developer assign to applications, topics, and workflows must match the categories that you assign to the user groups.

For more information about assigning permissions to applications and topics, see the

Data Integration Hub

Operator Guide

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Data Integration Hub

Developer Guide

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