People and roles
Add people to a project as admins, editors or viewers, and what each role can do.
Project roles #
Everyone on a project has one role:
| Role | Can |
|---|---|
| Owner | Everything. The owner is the person (or firm) the project belongs to. |
| Admin | Add and remove people, duplicate, archive or delete the project, plus everything an editor can do. |
| Editor | Work on schemes: open, save, duplicate, take snapshots, turn links on and off. |
| Viewer | Read everything and change nothing. Viewers can download pictures (PDF, PNG, print) but not data. |
In a firm project, every member of the firm works as an editor, and the firm's owners and admins manage it. See Firms.
Some tools narrow this further. A Timecard is only ever seen by its owner, and a Bullpen staffing plan has its own circle.
Add someone to a project #
You need to be the project's owner or an admin.
- Open the project's page and find People.
- Type the email on their ArchOverflow account.
- Pick admin, editor or viewer, then click Add.
The project shows up in their list right away. They need an account first: send them to Accounts and sign-in.
If they don't have tool access of their own, they work on this project as a guest collaborator.
Change a role #
Add their email again with the new role. The page says Role updated.
Remove someone #
Click Remove next to their name and confirm. They lose access to the project at once.
Working at the same time #
Several people can edit one scheme at once. Each tool saves on top of the latest version: when someone else saved first, their changes are merged into yours and the tool says so. If you both changed the same thing, your edit on screen wins.
Viewers see changes as people save them, with a View only note.
Roles elsewhere #
Project roles are separate from firm roles and from the roles inside a Pinup deck. See Firms and Pages and page owners.