Space members and roles
Space administration grants four separate things; channel roles are stored per channel; Space roles are name tags that grant nothing.
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Three different things are called a role in Spaces, and they do not overlap. Space administration decides what you may change about a Space. A channel role is stored per channel. A Space role is a name tag with no permissions at all.
Space administration
Open Space settings from the Space menu. It has four tabs: Overview, Channels, Members, and Roles. Each tab is granted separately, so an administrator may hold some and not others.
| What it grants | What you can do |
|---|---|
| Reorder channels | Change the shared order of a Space's channels |
| Manage channels | Create a channel, and create, rename, and delete channel groups |
| Edit the Space profile | Change the Space Name, its image, Hide inactive threads after, Who can find and join, and Collaboration access |
| Manage Space members | Add and remove Space members, grant and remove Space administrator access, and manage Space roles |
Space settings appears if you hold any of the four. Delete Space appears only if you hold both the profile and the member grants. Every member can use Leave Space.
On the Members tab, a person's menu offers Make Space admin and Remove Space admin. You cannot promote yourself: Another Space administrator has to grant this. A member who belongs to a parent Space cannot be removed here: They belong to a parent Space. Remove them there.
Channel roles
Each channel keeps its own membership with a role per person. The roles that appear are Owner, Admin, Member, Reviewer, Observer, Guest, Agent, and Auditor. When you add somebody you can assign Member, Reviewer, Observer, Guest, or Admin.
The channel actions that depend on the role are held by channel owners and admins, and by Space administrators:
- Rename channel
- Who can post
- Manage members and Membership mode
- Archive conversation
- Posting in a channel set to Space admins only
- Resolving and reopening threads
Other roles change the label beside the name and who @admins reaches; they do not change what the interface lets you do.
Space roles
Roles in Space administration creates named groups of people: Named groups of people in this Space. A role is affiliation only. Granting or removing one never changes what a person may do.
- New role creates one. Names are 1 to 100 characters and unique within the Space, and a Space holds at most 50.
- Assign role adds people who are already Space members: Give {{name}} to people who are already members of this Space.
- Archive retires a role: The role disappears from rosters and pickers. Messages and Space membership are not affected.
Roles become mentionable. Typing @ in a channel offers the Space's roles alongside people. See Mention someone or a role.
Related
Related pages
- Add people to a channel — Open the channel's members list, choose Add member, then add a person by name or email, or bind a workgroup.
- You cannot post in a channel — The composer is locked because the channel is an announcement channel, it is archived, your access is read only, or a send failed.
- Cross-Account access — A Space can be shared with another Account through a collaboration; members of that Account then read, or read and post, in its channels.