Access rights for developers

reference australia Updated Sep 10, 2026 1 min read r_GrantingAccessRightsToDevelopers.md

To use Team Development, application developers must have a set of credentials for each instance in the Team Development hierarchy.

An instance's placement in the team development hierarchy determines the credentials it requires.

Desired Access	Credential Requirements
Access to the Team Development application	A user with the admin role on the instance you are accessing
Right to register a remote instance	One of following:- A user with the admin role on the instance you are registering A user with the teamdev_user role on the instance you are registering
Right to push changes to the parent instance from a development instance	One of following:- A user with the admin role on the parent instance A user with the teamdev_user role on the parent instance
Right to compare to a registered remote instance	One of following:- A user with the admin role on the registered development instance A user with the teamdev_user role on the registered development instance
Access to the Code Review Requests module	One of following:- A user with the admin role on the parent instance A user with the teamdev_code_reviewer role on the parent instance

**Note:** The teamdev\_user role does not grant access to the Team Development application and is not intended for developers to work on local development instances. It is intended to grant developers non-admin access to remote instances such as the parent instance or a peer development instance.

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title: Access rights for developers
description: To use Team Development, application developers must have a set of credentials for each instance in the Team Development hierarchy.
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# Access rights for developers

To use Team Development, application developers must have a set of credentials for each instance in the Team Development hierarchy.

An instance's placement in the [team development hierarchy](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/team-development/t_SetUpAnInstanceHierarchy.md) determines the credentials it requires.

<table id="table_vnz_5jb_bq"><thead><tr><th>

Desired Access

</th><th>

Credential Requirements

</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td>

Access to the Team Development application

</td><td>

A user with the admin role on the instance you are accessing

</td></tr><tr><td>

Right to [register a remote instance](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/team-development/t_DefineARemoteInstance.md)

</td><td>

One of following:-   A user with the admin role on the instance you are registering
-   A user with the teamdev\_user role on the instance you are registering

</td></tr><tr><td>

Right to push changes to the parent instance from a development instance

</td><td>

One of following:-   A user with the admin role on the parent instance
-   A user with the teamdev\_user role on the parent instance

</td></tr><tr><td>

Right to compare to a registered remote instance

</td><td>

One of following:-   A user with the admin role on the registered development instance
-   A user with the teamdev\_user role on the registered development instance

</td></tr><tr><td>

Access to the [Code Review Requests](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/application-development/team-development/t_EnableCodeReview.md) module

</td><td>

One of following:-   A user with the admin role on the parent instance
-   A user with the teamdev\_code\_reviewer role on the parent instance

</td></tr></tbody>
</table>**Note:** The teamdev\_user role does not grant access to the Team Development application and is not intended for developers to work on local development instances. It is intended to grant developers non-admin access to remote instances such as the parent instance or a peer development instance.