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Assets administrator guides
Last updated: May-29-2026
If you're a root user or have admin-level access to the Assets product for your Cloudinary account, it may be your responsibility to define how your organization uses Assets, possibly specific to one or more Cloudinary product environments.
These responsibilities can include adding users, configuring user roles and permissions, defining Media Library user groups, monitoring usage statistics, graphs, and other reports, and creating and managing structured metadata fields. Depending on your permissions system and assigned roles, you may also be able to set Media Library and overall account options.
There may be differences in what you're allowed to do, as well as your permission-granting options, depending on which system you're using. For example, Enterprise customers with Roles and Permissions can also create custom roles for more granular admin responsibilities.
See Roles and Permissions vs. legacy to find out which permissions system your account uses and the differences between them.
This guide provides detailed information about these topics:
Before going on to plan and configure the way the Assets will be used in your organization, you'll also want to familiarize yourself with the Assets digital asset management (DAM) capabilities available through the Media Library by taking a look at the high level overview in the Get started page and all the pages of the Assets user guide, which describes all features available to Media Library users, including:
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