You can create ArcGIS Notebooks in your ArcGIS Enterprise portal if you have the Create Notebooks privilege. Because ArcGIS Notebooks consume resources in your portal and ArcGIS Notebook Server, creating notebooks is a Publisher-level privilege.
Each portal user assigned the Administrative role can create and manage notebooks, and any portal user assigned a role that contains the Create Notebooks privilege can do the same.
Learn more about levels, roles, and privileges in the portal
Only the owner of a notebook can save edits to the original notebook item. If the owner shares the notebook with others in the portal, they can view its item details page, open the notebook, and run it as written. Any changes they save to the notebook automatically creates a copy of it that they own.
Any portal user can view and open notebooks that are shared in a location to which they have access. For example, if a notebook is shared with My Organization, all users with access to the portal can view and open it. If a notebook is shared with a particular group, only members of that group can view and open it.
Create a custom role for notebook users
If you have portal users to whom you want to assign the Create Notebooks privilege, you can assign them the default Publisher or Administrator role. However, if you want to limit the range of actions they can take in the portal besides the creation and sharing of notebooks, you can create a custom role for them.
The following steps create a custom role based on the User role, with the Create Notebooks privilege added:
- Verify that you are signed in as an administrator of your organization.
- Click Organization at the top of the site and click Settings.
- Click Roles.
- Click Create Role, and provide a name and description for the role.
- The name must be unique within your organization, cannot be a default role name, and can contain up to 128 characters. The name is not case sensitive. An example is Notebook User.
- The description can contain up to 250 characters. An example is This role can create and use hosted notebooks but cannot perform other Publisher- or Administrator-level tasks in the portal.
- Select the User role as a base for your new role.
By default, the privileges pertaining to ArcGIS Notebooks—Create and edit notebooks, Publish notebooks, and Schedule notebooks—are switched off for User-level roles.
- Click the Create and edit notebooks, Publish notebooks, and Schedule notebooks toggle buttons to switch the privileges on.
- Click Save Role.
A message appears stating that the role was successfully created.
You can now assign the custom role to portal users as appropriate.