Asset Management Overview

A business can access multiple assets. Your business owns the assets or your business accesses them as an agency. Use Facebook's Business Management Asset APIs to add, remove, or query the relationship between a business and its assets, to manage business assets and access to the assets.

Business Asset Groups

Business asset groups help large advertisers or agencies efficiently manage users and assets in their business. You should organize assets and users in a way that maps to real-world operations. For example, a business can structure its assets and users according to brand, region, client, or an organizing principle of their choice.

Business asset groups can contain ad accounts, Pages, Facebook pixels, offline event sets, apps, catalogs, custom conversions and Instagram accounts. The assets can be owned by a business or shared to provide access to an agency.

You can use this API add users to a business asset group. Once added, you can grant people permissions to assets in a business asset group. This helps you grant access to multiple assets all at once, without creating too many admins at the business level.

With this API, you can manage business asset groups that someone already created through Business Manager or you can administer assets within the business asset group. You can:

• Get a list of business asset groups associated with a business
• Delete or rename a business asset group
• View all assets in a business asset group
• Get, add, edit and delete user permissions for assets in a business asset group
• Assign users to a business asset group
• Get, add and delete assets from a business asset group

Permissions

To use Business Asset Groups API, your app needs the appropriate Marketing API Access Level:

• For all add and remove endpoints: Access token's user needs to be an admin of the business. Otherwise, the access will be denied.
• For all API endpoints, your app needs business_management permission.

You need extra permissions for:

Limitations

You see an error if you try to reduce or remove permissions for an asset contained in a business asset group via the following API calls: DELETE request to /{page_id}/assigned_users, POST request to /{page_id}/assigned_users, DELETE request to /act_{ad_account_id}/assigned_users, and POST request to /act_{ad_account_id}/assigned_users. To reduce or remove permissions, follow these steps:

1. Make a call to get a list of asset groups associated with a business. Look for asset groups where contained_asset_id is equal to the {page_id} or {ad_account_id}.
2. For each returned business asset group id, make an API call to remove a user from that group.
3. Then, call the above DELETE or POST requests to remove the permission for that user on Page or Ad Account.

If you provide permissions management features in your app for other businesses, you should use this API to prevent inconsistencies and errors between the API and Business Manager.

You cannot set permissions on apps, catalogs, Instagram accounts and custom conversions through the business asset group. Instead, you should assign permissions at the asset level.

For example, if you add Roger to a business asset group in Jasper’s business manager, he can get permissions to any Pages, ad accounts, pixels and so on, in that business asset group. However to remove or edit Roger’s permissions to any asset in the Jasper’s business asset group, you must perform this action in the business asset group itself.

You can add user permissions at the asset level using asset API, such as change someone from Page moderator to admin. See examples for Page and Ad Account.

Permitted Roles

When a user is added to a business, one of the following two roles can be assigned:

Catalogs

The following roles can be assigned to any user of the business, Admin or Employee, on catalogs accessible by this business:

Ad Accounts

The following tasks can be assigned to any user of the business for ad accounts accessible by this business:

Pages

You can assign the following tasks to any user of a business on Pages accessible to this business:

Apps

There is no role or task management APIs for apps in Business Manager.

Instagram accounts

There is no role management for Instagram accounts in Business Manager. Users with access to ad accounts that are linked to Instagram accounts can run ads for those Instagram accounts.