Folder roles

Goal: you define which access rights a folder role has for a client’s folder.

Prerequisite: you are logged in as administrator. Folder roles and their access rights depend on client and folder.

Step by step

  1. Select Administration > Folder roles.

    List of folder roles of a client

  2. For the desired folder of the client, click the Key icon button in the corresponding row to set its access rights.

Note: rights assigned to a parent folder apply by default to its subfolders as well. A dimmed-out tick Dimmed-out tick for rights inherited from the parent folder indicates that the access rights of the folder role were defined on the parent folder.

Check the result

The assigned rights apply to all users with this folder role in the respective folder.

Available rights groups

All possible actions are distributed across the following groups:

Folder structure

  • Create folder

  • Change folder

  • Delete folder

  • Restore deleted folder

Project

  • Create project

  • Read project

  • Change project

  • Delete project

  • Restore deleted project

  • Lock project

  • Unlock project

Email notification

  • Watch project changes

  • Watch milestone change

  • Watch negative effort

  • Watch cross-project links

Timesheet

  • Enter timesheet

  • Accept timesheet

iCalendar & Timeline

  • API access — allows access to additional Rillsoft Integration Server modules in the browser window.

Create a new folder role

After clicking the button Button for creating a new folder role you can create a new folder role.

Edit a folder role

After clicking the icon button Icon button for editing a folder role you can change a folder role (name and description).

Delete a folder role

After clicking the icon button Icon button for deleting a folder role you can delete a folder role.