User Roles

Administrator

Administrators can take any possible action in the application. Users in the Administrator role are typically limited to system administrators and administrative unit managers, and are generally the users able to add new staff to the Managers role and additional admins. Administrators are the only ones who can see and modify items in any collection. To be an Administrator, a user needs to be added to the "administrator system group. Users can be added or removed to these group by navigating to Manage Content → Manage Groups.

Unit Administrator

A Unit Admin can create collections, add or remove others to the Unit Administrator role, and is able to edit all items and collections within the Unit.

Manager

Managers can create collections and assign additional staff to the manager, editor and depositor roles for those collections. They can edit all aspects of a record in a collection they manage.

Editor

Editors can edit descriptive metadata and access control for an unpublished individual item, but cannot edit if the item is in a Published state.

Depositor

Depositors can create records, add media, and edit descriptive metadata. They can Publish items, but not unpublish. They can only modify or delete unpublished items.

User Role Permissions Table