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:
Access and manage all project settings.
View and manage all the documents and permissions to them.
View, invite, and manage all project participants.
Set up Q&A and provide access to it for other participants.
View all project activity in reports.
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.