Creating & editing roles and permissions

Roles determine the rights every person has in Matterial, for example viewing and editing documents by others, do admin stuff, etc. Depending on your role, you can

• Comment on documents
• Edit all tasks of documents
• Publish unreviewed documents
• Immediately review documents
• Edit users’ personal information and roles
• Super-Administration (control over everything)
• View archive
• Edit all documents
• Edit categories
• Edit groups and roles
• View trash

The default roles are:

• Super admin: may manage the whole software. Anything really.
• Admin: may manage users, roles, groups, categories, accounts.
• Editor: may edit documents published by others
• Reader: may write and publish documents, but only read documents published by others.

If you’re an admin, you may also create new roles in “Administration” and select the rights assigned to that role.