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title: "Administration Services"
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Yellowfin's Administration Services are used to perform administrative functions, such as perform single sign-ons, manage users and client organizations, and more. Below is a list of all these functions.

 

### Categories of Administration Services

The administration web services are categorized into the following sections.

| **Category** | **Description** |
| --- | --- |
| [**Single sign-on**](https://yellowfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USER74/pages/2490441) | This category is related to user authentication services, that allows them to access multiple organizations. |
| [**User management**](https://yellowfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USER74/pages/2495152) | The services displayed in this section involve user management and replication. |
| [**Group & role administration**](https://yellowfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USER74/pages/2491951) | These web services are related to managing user roles and groups. |
| [**Client organization management**](https://yellowfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USER74/pages/2495147) | These web services are used to manage Yellowfin's Client Org. functionality. |
| [**User object retrieval & manipulation**](https://yellowfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USER74/pages/2490488) | The function calls in this category can be used to retrieve or manipulate user objects, mainly report and dashboard details. |
| [**Export & import content**](https://yellowfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USER74/pages/2492003) | These group of functions are related to exporting or importing Yellowfin content. |
| [**Schedule management**](https://yellowfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USER74/pages/2495164) | These web services can be used to manage Yellowfin's schedule management functionality. |
| [**Cache management**](https://yellowfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USER74/pages/2490439) | These special set of web services are used to manage caches in a cluster environment. |
| [**Data source management**](https://yellowfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USER74/pages/2495310) | The web services highlighted in this section will allow you to manage your data sources. |
| [**Configuration & settings**](https://yellowfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USER74/pages/2493519) | These web services can be used to manage Yellowfin's configuration settings. |
| [**View management**](https://yellowfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USER74/pages/2498190) | A set of web services to update a Yellowfin view. |
| [**Miscellaneous web services**](https://yellowfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USER74/pages/2493495) | Some additional web services, including some you can use for testing the server, perform SQL queries, manage folders, etc. |

 

 

A separate section is also included that provides details on the [Administration Services Objects](https://yellowfin.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/USER74/pages/2514369).