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Managing member permissions and assignments

There are four roles which project members can have within a Trap.NZ project: trapper, advanced trapper, manager, and administrator (note that some roles were renamed in September 2021). Roles are used to grant assorted permissions to project members.

By default, all new members are assigned the trapper and can be given broader permissions by an administrator of the project.

Description of role permissions

  • Project members with trapper role (previously no role):
    • Can add new lines and stations to a project
    • Can view and edit stations which they added
    • Can view and edit stations to which they have been assigned.
    • Can add, edit, and delete records to their stations
  • Project members with the advanced trapper role (previously readonly):
    • Can do everything above, and also …
    • Can view any station in the project
  • Project members with the manger role (previously editor):
    • 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
  • Project 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 have in a project

  • Go to the My projects menu. You can see your role in each of your projects.

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How to change a member's role

Changing a member's role can only be done by a project administrator.

  1. Go to the My projects menu and click on the name of the project you want to manage
  2. Click the Members tab
  3. Find the person whose role you want to change and click edit to the far right of their name
  4. Under Roles select the dropdown and choose the new role you would like to assign
  5. Click the Update membership button

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Station Assignment

Assigning members to additional stations

By default, members with the trapper or advanced trapper role can only make changes to stations which they added to the project. If you want someone with these roles to be able to make changes to other stations you can assign additional stations to them:

  1. Go to My projects and click on the name of the project you want to manage
  2. Go to the Traps menu, then click 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

These members will now be able to add, edit, and delete records for the selected stations (and edit the station details).

Unassign members from stations

To remove a members access to a station, repeat the above steps but choose Unassign Members on step 3. 

Remember that members with manager or administrator roles will always have access to all stations,  you cannot remove their access to particular stations.

    View member assignments to 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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