Creating permissions

Permissions either allow or prevent groups of users from accessing certain data. Metabase has a simple philosophy around permissions, which they outlined in a blog post back in 2016 when they introduced the feature (https://www.metabase.com/blog/Permissions/). Unlike some analytics products, which give extremely fine-grained and complex permission capabilities down to the individual record, Metabase keeps it high level. They do, however, offer more fine-grained permissions in their Enterprise version.

In Metabase, permissions are not applied at the user level, but rather at the group level. So, before we learn about permissions, let's learn about groups.

Creating user groups

Groups allow you to organize sets of users. The purpose of creating groups is to control permissions around the viewing of certain databases, tables, or columns. For example, a good practice is to restrict the access of Personally Identifiable Information (PII), such as full names...