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Permissions & Rights assigned to various Admin User Levels
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Please refer to the chart below to know about premissions assigned to each user-level of administrator account in PHPKB Knowledge Base Software.

Permissions Superuser Editor Writer
Add New Category Yes Yes No
Manage Categories Yes Yes No
Create Private Categories Yes Yes No
Add New Article Yes Yes Yes
Manage Articles Yes Yes No
Approve Articles Yes Yes No
Review Submitted Articles Yes Yes No
Access Article Versions Yes Yes No
Revert An Article to Previous Version Yes Yes No
Delete Articles Yes Yes No
Save to Drafts Yes Yes Yes
Article Collaboration (idea/opinion sharing) Yes Yes Yes
Empty Trash (Purge) Yes No No
Restore Deleted Articles Yes No No
Manage Article Subscribers Yes No No
Manage KB Subscribers Yes No No
Create Custom Fields Yes Yes No
Manage Custom Fields Yes Yes No
Access Open Support Tickets Yes Yes No
Reply to Support Tickets Yes Yes No
Close Resolved Support Tickets Yes Yes No
Publish Resolved Ticket as New Article Yes Yes No
Manage Comments Yes Yes No
Approve Comments Yes Yes No
Add File Attachments Yes Yes Yes
Manage File Attachments Yes Yes No
Create News & Announcements Yes Yes
 No
Manage News & Announcements Yes Yes
 No
Create Glossary Terms Yes Yes
 No
Manage Glossary Terms Yes Yes
 No
Create Languages* Yes Yes
 No
Manage Languages* Yes Yes
 No
Create User Accounts Yes No No
Manage User Accounts Yes No No
Create User Groups Yes No No
Manage User Groups Yes No No
Manage Knowledge Base Configuration Settings Yes No No
View Knowledge Base Statistics Yes No
 No
Take Database Backup Yes No No
Optimize Database Yes No No
Import Article Data from CSV File Yes No No
Import Article Data from HTML Documents Yes No No
Sitemap Generation Yes No No

* for multi-language (ML) editions only.

Tip: Apart from the user-levels mentioned above, there is an additional user-level called 'Translator' and it is available only in the multi-language editions of PHPKB knowledge base software. This user-level is for the assignment of language translation job. So, it has no rights in the admin control panel except to translate the language files assigned to him/her.
Posted by: Administrator - Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 6:23 AM This article has been viewed 1387 times.
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Comment by Ryan Harter on Wed, Jan 4th, 2012 at 4:10 PM
Is there a way to make a writer be able to approve articles without making them an editor?
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