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Managing project member roles (permissions)

ByThere defaultare four roles which members can have with in a Trap.NZ project: no role, readonly, editor, and administrator.

All new members start with no role assigned and can onlybe updategiven trapsbroader permissions by an administrator of the project.

Description of role permissions
  • Project members with no role:
    • Can add new lines and stations to a project
    • Can view and edit stations which they haveadded
      • added
    • Can view and edit stations to yourwhich project.they have been assigned.
    • Can add, edit, and delete records to their stations
  • People members with the readonly 

    role:

    • If

    • Can do everything above, and also …
    • Can view any station in the project
  • People members with the editor role:
    • Can do everything above, and also …
    • Can edit or delete any station in the project
    • Can add, edit, delete records from any station
    • Can run reports on the project
  • People members with the administrator role:
    • Can do everything above, and also …
    • Can add and remove users from a project
    • Can change the role of any project member
    • Can configure project specific settings (like new bait types)
    • Can edit the general information about the project (geographic area the project covers, description, contact points etc)
How to tell what role you wouldhave likein a project
  • Go to givethe My projects menu, there you will see a list of all the project which you are a member broaderof permissionsand youwhat haveyour twoassigned options.role is.

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ChangeHow to change a member's s role

Changing thea member's role withincan theonly be done by a project will give them additional rights to all traps, stations and recordsadministrator. within the project.

  1. Go to to the My projects  menu and click on the name of the project you want to manage.manage
  2. Click the "Members"Members tab.tab
  3. Find the person whose role you want to give extra permissions tochange and click "Edit"
    • Select read-only memberedit if you want them to be able to:
      • View all traps, stations and records, but
      • only be able to update stations they've created or been assigned to
    • Select editor if you want them to be able to:
      • See and update all traps, stations and records.
    • Select administrator member if you want them to be able to:
      • See and update all traps, stations and records,
      • make changes to the projectfar itself,right of their name
      • addUnder Roles select the dropdown and remove members fromchoose the project,new androle you would like to assign
      • assignClick membersthe toUpdate trapsmembership or stations.
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Assign members to specific traps or stations

Assigning members to groups of traps or stations allows more granular control of a project. This allows members to update records for only the traps or stations to which they are assigned. It also works for bait or monitoring stations in their respective menus.

Assign multiple members to groups of traps or stations
  1. Go to My projects and click on the name of the project you want to manage.
  2. Go to the Traps menu, then Manage traps.
  3. In the "Operations" box select "Assign members" in the dropdown.
  4. Select the tick boxes next to the traps you want to add members to.
  5. Click "Execute".
  6. Click on the "Select members to assign" dropdown and choose which members you want to add to the previously selected traps.
  7. Click "Next" and review your changes.
  8. Click "Confirm".

The members you selected will now be able to update records for the selected traps or stations.

Unassign multiple members from groups of traps or stations
  1. Go to My projects and click on the name of the project you want to manage.
  2. Go to the Traps menu, then Manage traps.
  3. In the "Operations" box select "Unassign Members" in the dropdown.
  4. Select the tick boxes next to the traps you want to remove members from.
  5. Click "Execute".
  6. Click on the "Select members to assign" dropdown and choose which members you want to remove from the previously selected traps.
  7. Click "Next" and review your changes.
  8. Click "Confirm".
View member assignments to traps or stations
  1. Go to My projects and click on the name of the project you want to manage.
  2. Go to the Traps menu, then Manage traps.
  3. At the far right of the each row in the traps table you will see a message which says "X member(s) assigned"
  4. Click on the "X member(s) assigned" to see the names assigned to that trap.
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