Administrators with global roles have authority across all portals and communities within the PAF. Administrators with global roles are responsible for installing and maintaining the PAF, as well as creating the communities that populate it.

Portal Administrator

The Portal Administrator creates and deletes community folders and communities, and manages gear folders. The Portal Administrator is responsible for day-to-day issues of portal and community membership administration using the administrative interface provided by the PAF. These tasks include adding new gears and style elements to the portals, and maintaining and updating existing portals. Portal Administrators have authority over all of the communities in the PAF, including those created by other Portal Administrators.

The Portal Administrator is the only role that has access to the Portal Administration Pages. These pages allow access to the gears and style elements that make up the PAF.