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Available roles

Learn about available roles for participants and the difference between them: Administrator, User, Custom

Updated over 4 months ago

All project participants are invited into groups. Group settings define their roles, access to features, document permissions, and other settings.

There are 3 available roles: Administrator, User, and Custom.

Brief overview of the main differences between roles:

Feature / Role

Administrator

Custom

User

Personal settings

✔️

✔️

✔️

View own activity in reports

✔️

✔️

✔️

View users of own group

✔️

✔️

optional

View and manage documents

✔️

optional

optional

View activity of own group

✔️

optional

optional

View users of other groups

✔️

optional

View activity of other groups

✔️

optional

Manage permissions

✔️

optional

Manage users

✔️

optional

Create groups

✔️

Manage group settings

✔️

View all project activity

✔️

Project settings

✔️

Project archiving

✔️

Recycle bin

✔️

Q&A setup

✔️

Administrator

Administrator is the highest role with full management rights. Project administrators can:

User

User role allows:

  • View permitted documents.

  • View own activity in reports.

Optionally:

  • View users of own group.

  • View activity of own group.

Custom

Custom role allows:

  • View permitted documents.

  • View users of selected groups.

  • View own activity in reports.

Optionally:

  • Manage users of selected groups: invite, delete, move, deactivate or activate, and change document notifications.

  • View and manage permissions of selected groups, except their own group.

  • View activity of selected groups.

⚠️ Custom users that are authorized to manage permissions will see complete documents structure in permissions settings despite their permitted documents.

💡 Access to Q&A is defined for each participant by project administrators according to the selected Q&A setup, regardless of their group role.

Learn more about creating groups to proceed with the invitation of project participants.

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