Role

Key point: The role determines the permissions of a member in a PageSeeder group.

The role of a member is set by the manager of the group – except for the administrator role which can only be granted by another administrator.

Each role is associated with a set of permissions within a group or project. Users can have different roles in different groups.

The following diagram summarizes the default roles and permissions within PageSeeder.

Group roles

Roles within a group are essentially hierarchical. They are listed here in order from the lowest level of permissions to the highest.

Unless specified otherwise, when a role is mentioned in the documentation, it is the minimum role required.

Guest

A member with readonly permissions to the group. Guests have the lowest level of permissions within a group. They can view documents, comments but not the members list and they cannot make any modifications to the group.

Reviewer

A guest who is allowed to post and reply to comments and view the group members list.

Contributor

A reviewer who can also edit and delete their own comments, create, edit, upload, move, and archive documents.

Manager

A contributor who can also add and modify the members of the group, edit or archive the comments of other members, configure the group and modify some group properties. See manager for details.

Moderator

A manager with the additional responsibility of approving moderated comments. A moderator has the same permissions as a manager. See moderator for details.

Approver

A manager who can also approve and close tasks and workflows and create document versions.

Moderator and approver

Combines the role of approver and moderator. This role has the same level of permissions as an approver.

Project roles

The roles in a project have the same permissions as roles within a group, with the following additional permissions:

Contributor

A project contributor can also create groups within the project.

Manager

A project manager can also add and remove members of the project, configure the project and create groups within the project.

All members of groups within a project have guest permissions to that project, but they are not listed as members of the project.

Role configuration

PageSeeder uses a fixed set of roles. It is not possible to create different roles in PageSeeder, but an administrator can override permissions on existing roles.