Grant and Revoke Permissions by Role

Grant or Revoke Group Permissions

Grant or Revoke User Permissions

Reset Permissions to AnswerHub Defaults

tank created · Feb 02, 2016 at 08:19 PM · micheled edited · Mar 31, 2017 at 04:22 PM

There will be times that you want to avoid selecting individual permissions to grant or revoke and instead want to simply assign them by the default role profiles supplied with AnswerHub. You may want to make a user a Moderator or Super User, and grant all of the permissions of that role in a particular space.

To grant or revoke permissions by role, follow these steps:

From anywhere in the AnswerHub User Interface (UI), click the Avatar () drop-down menu and select Administration.

Result: The Administrator Dashboard is displayed with the Dashboard tab pre-selected.
Select the Users & Groups tab.

Result: The Users & Groups Summary pane is displayed.
To grant or revoke permissions by role for a user, follow these steps:
1. From the Users box, click the Manage Users link.
  
  Result: The Manage Users pane is displayed.
2. From the table, locate the user you want to grant or revoke permissions, and click Permissions from the right-hand column.
  
  Result: The Permissions–[username] pane is displayed.
To grant or revoke permissions by role for a group, follow these steps:
1. From the Groups box, click the Manage Groups link.
  
  Result: The Manage Groups pane is displayed.
2. From the table, locate the group you want to grant or revoke permissions, and click Permissions from the right-hand column.
  
  Result: The Permissions–[group name] pane is displayed.
To add either site- or space-level permissions, click the Gear () icon in the corresponding column and select from the following options:
1. Clear all- removes all permission settings for the group at the current level. Permission settings will revert to those that have been inherited from a higher level in the AnswerHub Hierarchy.
2. Grant all- explicitly grants the group all of the permissions within the selected role(s), overriding any default or inherited permissions at the selected level.
3. Revoke all- explicitly revokes all of the permissions within the selected role(s) for the group, overriding any default or inherited permission settings at the selected level.
Note: This drop-down contains 5 options, but this task is focusing on Clear all, Grant all, and Revoke all. If you need more information about the Recipes or Advanced options, please see the How do I use permission recipes? FAQ or the Grant and Revoke User Permissions article, respectively.

Result: The Clear all, Grant all, or Revoke all window is displayed.
To clear all role permissions, do the following:
1. Select the checkbox(es) for the role(s) to clear permissions for.
2. Click the Ok () button.
  
  Result: The site or space column you selected displays: "No specific permissions defined. All inherited from [Site Name]."
To grant all role permissions, do the following:
1. Select the checkbox(es) for the role(s) to grant permissions for.
2. Click the Ok () button.
  
  Result: The site or space column you selected displays the role(s) you selected in bold with "All granted" () displayed beneath it in a green box.
To revoke all role permissions, do the following:
1. Select the checkbox(es) for the role(s) to revoke the permissions of.
2. Click the Ok () button.
  
  Result: The site or space column you selected displays the role(s) you selected in bold with "All revoked" () displayed beneath it in a red box.