About member roles in the portal

Roles are used to determine what you can do in the portal. Each member of an organization can have a user, publisher, or administrator role.

• Users have privileges to add items, create web maps, share content, and participate in groups. In addition, users see a customized view of the site, for example, a gallery of the organization's featured content and the organization's logo on the web pages. Users can only work with items they have created; they cannot modify or delete other users' content.
• Publishers have user privileges, plus the ability to publish and host services from feature or tiled map data. Publishers can only work with items and services that they have created; they cannot modify or delete other publishers' content.
• Administrators have user and publisher privileges, plus additional capabilities to manage the organization and other users. An organization must have at least one administrator. However, there are no limits on how many roles can be assigned within an organization. For example, if an organization has five members, all five members can be administrators.