Publish Interface Differences

Pyramid offers multiple apps and tools (aka "modalities") for accessing Publish, with varying degrees of functionality and sophistication. These configurations and options are typically orchestrated by system administrators, who ensure the right app is allocated to the right user at the right time.

Licenses and Profiles

When an administrator assigns a profile to a user, the profile indicates which app the user is granted access to (Publish Pro or Publish Lite) and indicates the options that should be granted in that app when the user logs on. For example, whether the user should be granted all features in Publish Pro or not.

  • Click here for more information about Creating Profiles

Understanding the app differences

The following matrix explains the various combinations of Publish that can be accessed by different users with different licenses and different user profiles.

 

Consume

Author

 

View Report

Smart Publish

Publish Lite

Publish Pro

License Type

       

Pro

Analyst

 

Viewer

 

 

 

User Profiles

       

Pro Mode

Lite Mode

 

Smart Options

Interfaces

       

Desktop Client + Tablet Client

Mobile Client (Phone)

 

 

 

Embedded Client

 

 

 

Functionality (non-exhaustive)

       

Quick Slicers

   

Text Fields

   

Access Discover Lite

   

Unlink

   

Open in Discover

   

Show and Hide Panels

   

Themes

   

Interaction Manager

   

Scheduling

     

Select Multiple Items

     

Make Shareable

     

Dynamic Images and Text

     

Graphic Text

     

Layout Containers

     

Flow Grids and Charts

     

Report Triggers

     

Page Repeaters

     

Page Triggers

     

Advanced Slicers

     

Formatting Panel

     

Model Mapping

     

AI-Generated Images

     

Customize Cover and Content Pages

     

Combinations

Using the preceding matrix, the following example user deployments are possible (there are numerous permutations):

  • A pro user, with authoring rights using the Publish Lite interface rather than the full Publish Pro tool set.
  • A pro user, with authoring rights using the Smart Publish tools only in the Publication builder.