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Roles and Permissions

Summary of the available roles for users and the level of access that each entail

Updated over a week ago

Introduction

There are multiple levels of administration and each user role has a different level of permission to the different areas of Blink. Users can be Basic Users, Group Administrators, Content Creators, Content Moderators, Organization Administrators, People Administrators, or Support Administrators.

🔍 Overview of each role

Basic Users

This will be the majority of your users. They only have access to the main Blink app, so the Feed, Chats, Directory and Hub. Basic users will not be able to use the Admin portal and have restricted use of certain features.

Each team can have multiple administrators who get access to a few more features in the main apps and the Blink Admin portal.

They have access to the ‘Admin Panel’, but a restricted view of only the users within the Teams they’re part of. They can help you manage your organization on a local level. We often see Team Leads, Supervisors, and Managers take on this role.

Team Administrators may be assigned by other Team Administrators or an Organization Administrator from within the Team profile in the Directory or in the Admin portal.

Team Admins can access and edit user profiles for those on their teams, but they cannot deactivate their profiles. Only Org Admins can deactivate users.

Content Creators

A group also has the option of assigning users to be a Content Creator. This will apply at a group level ONLY.

The Content Creator role allows users to create and manage team level content creation without any user management abilities

Content moderators have access to the ‘Admin Panel’ are able to add, edit, or delete any content in the Feed and Hub. They are also able to send out mandatory reads.

Organization administrators have full access to all features in both the main apps and the Admin portal.

People Administrators

People administrators have a limited set of organisation administrator capabilities. They are able to complete moderation & user management tasks but without any Hub administration abilities

Support Administrators

Support administrators are granted view only access to users and teams, with the extra ability to create support tickets

✏️ Changing/Assigning Roles

Assigning Group Administrators

  1. In the Admin panel, go to the "Group" section and select the group you're working on.

  2. Scroll down to the "Current group members" header. Search for the user you'd like to make an admin.

  3. Click on the ··· button next to a user’s name and select Grant Group Admin. This user will now be designated as a Group Admin.

Assigning other admin roles

All other administrator roles are assigned from a user’s profile in the Admin Panel instead of in the Groups view.

  1. Select the ‘Admin Panel’ and navigate to the "Users" section.

  2. Search for the user you'd like to update. Select their name to open their profile.

  3. Scroll to the bottom of the page to the drop-down labelled "Role" and select the admin role you'd like to grant to this user.

  4. Click "Save changes" to finalize the update.

⛔ Restricted features

⛔ Restricted features

Basic User

Group Admin

Content Creator

Content Moderator

Organisation Admin

People Admin

Support Admin

Manage Group Membership

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Manage comments and posts

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Manage Hub

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

Moderate Feed Posts

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes (for content that is not overseen by a Team Admin)

No

Send Priority Feed Posts

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Feature Feed Posts

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

🔏 Admin portal permissions

🔏 Admin portal permissions

Group Admin

Content creator

Content Moderator

Organisation Admin

People Admin

Support Admin

Authentication

No

No

No

Yes

No

No

Company

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

No

Billing

No

No

No

Yes

No

No

Audit Log

No

No

No

Yes

No

View Only

Analytics

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Hub

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

App Management

No

No

No

Yes

No

No

Key Contacts

No

No

No

Yes

No

View Only

Teams & Team Profiles

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

View Only

Import Users

No

No

No

Yes

Yes

No

Invite Users

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

Users & User Profiles

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes

View Only


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