Training Understand Developer Access
What you'll learn: what a Developer Access user sees in an application, how it differs from Administrator access, and where to find pages that aren't in the menu. You need: a login with Developer Access to an Application Development application (UI label "Tenant"). Time: 5 minutes.
Every user's membership in an application has an access type — the broad capability tier, shown on the home banner as "Access Type: …". It shapes which menu sections appear in your left rail. Two common types:
| Access type | Left menu sections |
|---|---|
| Administrator | APP ADMIN and DEVELOPMENT |
| Developer Access | DEVELOPMENT only |
A user's role (separate from access type) adds its own menu section and fine-grained permissions on top.
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Open the home page. The banner reads "Access Type: Developer Access", and the same KPI tiles, Getting Started, and Recent Activity appear as for any user.
- Look at the left menu. You have the DEVELOPMENT section only — Developer Home, App Designer, Schema & GraphQL, Flows & Scripts, Screens & Documents, Components, Integrations, Edge Gateway, Logs. There is no APP ADMIN section.
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The development tools are fully available. App Designer opens the Workspace with your application's components and every designer (Data Model, Data Flow, Screen, Application Graph, Script Editor, GraphQL Editor, Data Explorer, API Documentation).
The left menu is a curated view, not the limit of what you can open. Use the header Search to reach pages outside your menu section — for example, searching "Access Control" finds Access Control Policies. Whether a page actually opens depends on your permissions (your role and attached policies), not on whether it's in the rail.
Your home banner names your access type, and your left menu matches the table above. If you expected an APP ADMIN section and don't have it, your membership is Developer Access — ask an Administrator to change your access type or grant a role.
Open Schema & GraphQL → Data Models and confirm you can read the application's deployed models. Then use header Search to open a page that isn't in your left menu and notice it still loads when you have permission.
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