Administration
For administrators
This section is for people who manage their organisation's tvbeat account. If you don't have Settings in your account menu, you don't have admin rights and can skip it.
Administration is where you decide who can sign in, and what each of them sees. Open it from Settings in the account menu at the top right.
TVNZ
On TVNZ the structure — sub-accounts, user groups, their Landmark mappings and rule sets — is set up by TVNZ, and agency admins manage people within it. How a media group is set up walks through it with an example.
How access is put together
Three things stack up, and almost every access question comes down to which layer is doing the work:
| Layer | What it is | What it decides |
|---|---|---|
| User | One person's login | Whether they can sign in at all, and their role |
| User group | A set of users | Which rule set applies to them |
| Rule set | A configuration, per dataset | Which datasets, views, metrics, dimensions and data they get |
A user belongs to one or more groups; each group carries one rule set; the rule set is configured per dataset. So a rule set is the real unit of access — groups exist to point people at one.
Why two people see different numbers
Almost always the rule set. Two groups can open the same report on the same dataset and see different totals, because their rule sets apply different filter rules. Both figures are correct for who's asking.
What's in Settings
| Section | Covers |
|---|---|
| General | Account name and who the admins are |
| Accounts | Advertiser, agency and media-group accounts, where your setup uses them |
| Users | Individual accounts and their roles |
| User groups | Grouping users and attaching a rule set |
| Rule sets | The detail: datasets, views, metrics, dimensions, filter rules, modules |
| Security | Password policy and two-factor authentication |
| API Access | Tokens for programmatic access |
General
General holds the account-level basics:
- Client account name — the name shown in the dashboard's navigation bar
- Admins — everyone with admin rights on the account
Accounts
Some setups also have an Accounts section listing the advertisers, agencies and media groups the account works with, each with a status, a source and a type. Waiting approval holds accounts that have been requested but not yet approved. If you don't see this section, your account doesn't use it.