Unable to activate super-user mode in 8.6 Self Managed

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I’ve spun up a local developer instance of 8.6 (inc. web modeler) using the camunda-platform docker compose files, and then assigned the Web Modeller Admin role to the demo user.
When I then log into Web Modeller I don’t see the super-user mode switch in the profile menu that should now be there. Am I doing something wrong or is there a problem with this new feature?
I’ve tried deleting cookies, refreshing the browser, restarting the docker container, and creating a new user in the env configuration for web modeller with this role already assigned; none of which have made any differences.

I want to test that this will enable the ‘Publish to Organisation’ option for connector templates to share them to all projects in the WM instance. Is this assumption correct or is this functionality still SaaS only?

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Hi @BenAriss, welcome to the forums! The Web Modeler Admin role should enable super user mode in Self-Managed. Perhaps start with double checking the permissions on that role (see docs here)? Let me know if you are still seeing issues.

You can share Connector templates in Self Managed, but you don’t need super user mode for that. You just need to be an Organization Admin (see docs here and here). Super user mode is to access projects within Web Modeler that you weren’t granted access to, for administrative purposes (such as an employee left the company and you’re working to shift ownership of files around).

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Hi @nathan.loding ,

Double checking the permissions on the Web Modeler admin role shows that it does have the admin:* and write:* permissions to the WM internal API, and read:users permissions to the Identity resource server. It appears to be correctly configured according to the documentation, but the role doesn’t seem to be having the expected effect to the user.

Is the Web Modeler Admin role used to signify an Organisation admin or are there additional permissions I need to configure in Identity for it (I can’t seem to find any reference to it in the docs)? If so I’m not seeing an option to publish to organisation from the connector template or its version history either.

Thanks!