How to perform Syniverse Developer Community (SDC) User Administration

Users associated with an Syniverse Developer Community will have the access to perform the following operations :

• Company and Account Management
  • • Change the name of the company
    • Upgrade company from default to a billable company.
    • Generate an invite code to invite users to the company
    • Request a postpaid account for invoicing i.e. converting from trial phase to commercial agreement.
    • Accepting users joining the company.
• Application Management
• • Creation and Deleting applications
  • Updating account association
  • Managing access token for an application. 

User access is managed via assigning pre-defined roles. It can be done by the Company Admin. Alternately Syniverse support personnel can perform the updates on behalf of the customer via a Service Request.

Currently the platform supports the following SDC User Roles :

SDC_Admin –This role is assigned by default to the first user of the company being created along with the User_Administrator role.

SDC_Developer –This role is assigned by default to any user joining an existing company.

The company admin (role : User_Administrator ) can upgrade or downgrade the access for an existing user by updating the roles.

SDC_Admin Role

This is the highest level of access granted to an SDC user and entitles the user to perform the following actions.

• Company and Account Management
  • Generate invite code for company joins.
  • Accept users joining the company
  • Upgrade company from default state and change the company name.
  • Request a postpaid account when converting from trial phase to commercial phase.
• Application Management
  • Ability to view all applications under the company.
  • Ability to changes account association for an application from trial account to postpaid account for any application under the company.
  • Create/Edit any applications under the company.
  • Turn off selected APIs for any application under the company.
  • Delete any application under the company.
  • Manage access token for an application under the company.

SDC_Developer Role

This is the most restrictive level of access granted to an SDC user and entitles the user to perform the following actions.

• Application Management
  • Ability to create new applications.
  • Ability to only manage applications created/owned by this user.
  • Ability to changes account association for an application from trial account to postpaid account for owned applications under the company.
  • Turn off selected APIs for any application under the company.
  • Delete owned applications under the company.
  • Manage access token for owned applications under the company.
  • Will NOT be able to view all applications under the company but only applications created/owned by this user.

SDC users with User_Administrator role will be able to 

• Upgrade a user from SDC_Developer role to SDC_Admin role.
• Restrict user access by downgrading the a user from SDC_Admin role to SDC_Developer role.
• Assign the User_Administrator role to another user under the SDC company.
• Disable/Enable user access to SDC.
• Deactivate user access to SDC.

User Administration can be done via the following link in the Syniverse Developer Community Portal. Only user with both User_Administrator and SDC_Admin role will be able to perform user administration.