Authentication

GraphStudio follows the TigerGraph user authentication and role-based access control model as described in the document User Access Management.

Log On

If the GSQL tigergraph superuser password hasn’t been changed from the default of tigergraph, then no user login is needed for GraphStudio. Otherwise, users must provide a username and password to log in to GraphStudio. In addition, your system administrator can integrate TigerGraph with other user access management systems (e.g., LDAP, Active Directory, or SAML-based Single Sign On). See the User Access Management guide for information on setting up LDAP or SSO.

Users with roles other than superuser or globaldesigner who do not have access to any graphs cannot enter GraphStudio and will see an error on the login page:

no accessible graphs

Once inside GraphStudio, log out by clicking the User icon account btn and Log Out.

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Role- and graph-based access control

TigerGraph uses role-based access control with several pre-defined roles. Each role is a logical collection of data access privileges, such as querywriter or admin. Each user is assigned one or more roles by a graph admin user or by a superuser. Roles are also graph-specific. For example, user Pat could be an admin on graph G1 but a querywriter on graph G2.

When a user logs in and/or selects a graph, GraphStudio will disable certain actions based on the user’s role on that graph. On each working panel, a warning note will alert the user to features which are disabled. For example, in the current version of GraphStudio, users with querywriter, queryreader, or observer role will see the following warnings on the Design Schema working panel:

user access control

The table below summarizes the built-in roles and of their key privileges on GraphStudio:

superuser globaldesigner admin designer querywriter queryreader observer

Create a new graph schema

YES

YES

Drop a graph

YES

Can only drop graphs created by herself

Modify a graph schema

YES

YES

YES

YES

View a graph schema

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

Create a data mapping

YES

YES

YES

YES

View a data mapping

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

Load data

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

Explore a graph

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

Write a query

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

Run a query

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

YES

GlobalView and Select A Graph

The TigerGraph system can support multiple graphs within one TigerGraph instance. Read more at MultiGraph - An Overview.

Superuser and globaldesigner users see the global view by default.

global view

Click the card showing current graph and user roles, and a dropdown menu of graphs the current user can access will appear.

In addition, superuser or globaldesigner users can create and drop graphs.

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Other users have no access to global view and cannot create or drop graphs.