Access to the Administrative Services APIs for Nonadministrative Users
Users with an Administrator role have the necessary privileges to use all of the methods of the Administrative Services. However, for the following services, read-only access is available for users who do not have the Administrator role:
Access Profile
Action Bar Custom Web Applet
Assessment Scripts
Currency Picklist
Custom Record Type
Detail Page Custom Web Applet
Field Management
Home Page Custom Web Applet
Home Tab Custom Web Applet
Page Layout Field
Page Layout Related Information
Picklist
Role Management
Workflow Action
Workflow Rule
Administrators can read, create, update and delete configurations. Other users can only issue Read and ReadAll requests for the services listed; they must only have been granted access to Web services to issue requests (the Enable Web Services Access privilege).