Guide
Project Permissions
A permission is how you take part in one project. It is not the role you were hired for. Animator, writer, and the other catalog roles describe the work. Owner, admin, contributor, and observer describe what the site will let you change.
If you are not on the project
Anyone can read the public page: the overview, the updates under Communication, and the Team list. You can follow the project, upvote, and comment. You cannot open Files or Settings, upload, or post an update. To get on the crew, apply for an open role. Join a crew covers that.
Observer
An observer is on the team, with the least access. You can read Overview, Communication, and Team, and you can post in the team chat. You cannot open Files, download project files, upload, rename, move, or delete. You cannot post or edit updates, open Settings, post a role, or attach this project to a portfolio piece.
Contributor
A contributor can do everything an observer can, and can work in the shared files. The Files tab appears. You can make folders, upload, rename, move, download, and delete files, and download a folder as a zip. You can also pin work from this project on your portfolio.
You still cannot post or edit updates, change the project’s look or headquarters, open Settings, post or remove a role, accept applications, or change anyone’s permission. File Management is the walkthrough for that shared bin.
Admin
An admin can do everything a contributor can. In addition:
- Post updates, and edit or remove them. They show under Communication and in Following.
- Open Settings. That is where the banner, thumbnail, color, about text, tags, and headquarters are changed.
- Post an open role and remove one. Accept or deny the people who apply.
- On Team, change another member’s permission to observer, contributor, or admin, or remove them from the project.
An admin cannot change their own permission, and cannot change or remove the owner. An admin cannot delete the project or hand it to someone else.
Owner
The owner can do everything an admin can. There is one owner, the person who published the project unless they later transferred it. Only the owner can delete the project, and only the owner can transfer it to an admin. Both of those live in Settings and ask you to type a confirmation first.
Nobody else can remove the owner or change the owner’s permission. Transfer is how the project gets a new owner.
Who can change a permission
Owners and admins set permissions from the Team tab, on someone else’s row. The choices are observer, contributor, and admin. You cannot set your own. Accepting an application adds that person as a contributor. An owner or admin can change that afterward.