Multi Organization User Rights (advanced)
There are two main concepts when setting up user rights:
- Single-organization user rights (new environments and environments with <1000 users have this by default). This is most likely the setup you are using if you are viewing this article.
- Multi-Organization User Rights (organisation-based visibility)
Default permissions in Silverbucket multiorganisation environment
Global Administrators (Admin)
Who: The main administrators of the entire Silverbucket environment for all the organisation levels
Permissions: Unlimited access to the entire Silverbucket database
Management: Global administrators can create additional global administrators via User’s Dashboard or Admin panel.
Global Resource Managers (Full rights)
Who: People with full editing rights to the entire Silverbucket environment for all the organisation levels
Permissions: Full rights in the Silverbucket environment without user management or access to the Admin panel
Management: Global administrators can create additional global resource managers via User’s Dashboard or Admin panel.
Organisation Level Administrators
Who: The administrators of certain organisation level
Permissions: Full rights to own organisation level, including permissions to define/add additional organisation level administrators or resource managers
Management: Organisation level administrators can appoint and edit these users in the "Organization" tab in the admin panel by editing a certain organisation level.
Organisation Level Resource Managers
Who: People who need resourcing permissions to a certain organisation level
Permissions: Full rights to own organisation level without rights to user management
Management: Organisation level administrators can appoint and edit these users in the "Organization" tab in the admin panel by editing a certain organisation level.
Project Managers
Who: People who have been assigned as project managers for some project in Silverbucket
Permissions: Full rights to the project they are project manager of
Management: Automatically based on project manager field of the project's basic information
Project Members
Who: People who have been assigned to some project team in Silverbucket
Permissions: Read permissions to own project. Can also edit own resourcing plan.
Management: Automatically based on project membership
Maintaining Basic Information
Who: People in authorization group “Update Basic Information”
Permissions: Rights to maintain global user groups and roles. Can add people from own organisation to the user groups.
Management: Global administrators can appoint and edit these users in the "Authorization groups" in Admin panel