Your data permissions determine what information you can see throughout Rippling, in profile pages, reports, dashboards, custom apps, and more.
Super and full admins have complete access to the data in Rippling.
Types of data
There are several types of data in Rippling:
- Employee data
- Data from Rippling apps
- Custom, big, and live object data
For more information, see Get started with the Rippling data model.
Employee data
Every employee field (including custom fields you add to the Employee object) is assigned a permission classification that determines who can see it.
For example, Annual compensation is classified as sensitive data in Rippling. To use the Annual compensation field in a report or workflow, you must either have permission to view the Annual compensation field specifically, or you must have permission to view all sensitive employment data.
Where permissions are managed
Employee data is managed in Company Settings > Permissions.
When using an employee's attributes to create a Supergroup, you must have access to an attribute for the scope of the entire company to use it.
For more information, see Overview of people data sensitivity classifications and Assign permission to people data.
Data from Rippling apps
Your permission to access Rippling apps determines what data from those apps you can access.
For example, if you have a permission profile that gives you access to manage the Time & Attendance and Payroll apps for your direct and indirect reports, then you’ll have access to the data from those two apps for the employees in your downstream reporting chain.
Where permissions are managed
For most apps, access is managed in Company Settings > Permissions. For some apps, access is managed directly within the app itself.
Custom, big, and live object data
You can add data to Rippling and store it in custom, big, or live objects. This includes data you ingest from an external source using a pipeline or new objects you create using SQL.
Your permissions determine what you can do with these types of objects:
- View or manage the schema
- View, create, update, or delete records
- View or edit specific field within records
Where permissions are managed
Data permissions are managed in Data > Object Permissions.
For more information, see Object permissions.
See also
- Overview of people data sensitivity classifications
- Assign permission to people data
- Object permissions
- Get started with Supergroups
- Overview of service accounts
- Get started with the Rippling data model
- Object types
- Review data lineage
- Report permissions
- Dashboard sharing and permissions
- Pipelines
- Transformations