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People and roles: who may do what

Organisation roles and mailbox roles, what each opens, and how to invite someone.

Permissions in draften sit on three levels: the organisation, the mailbox and the installation. Organisation roles are set on the people, mailbox roles on the mailbox itself.

Roles in the organisation

Set them in Organisation → People and roles.

RoleMay do
ownereverything a manager may, plus make and remove other owners. Has owner rights on every mailbox
managerinvite people, add and connect mailboxes, manage model keys, CRM connections and outgoing mail, and read the change history. Has editor rights on every mailbox
membersees only the mailboxes they were given access to, with the role they have there

The last owner of an organisation stays — they cannot be removed. Removing someone from the organisation also takes away their access to mailboxes.

Most people in a company are members. Give the manager role only to someone who really sets up mailboxes and access.

Roles on a mailbox

The mailbox owner sets them in Settings → Mailbox and access, under Access to the mailbox. The organisation's owners and managers always have access; everyone else by the role you give them here.

RoleMay do
read onlylook at drafts, mail, activity. Changes nothing
editorthe same, plus change settings, instructions and knowledge, and decide in Learning
ownerthe same, plus manage the mailbox's assistants, their name and signature, the mailbox's keys and access; may connect a CRM of their own for this mailbox only

The user help is written for the editor: it covers working with drafts, instructions, knowledge and learning.

The operator of the installation

Above the organisations there is one more level: the operator, the person who runs the installation. They see Installation: the organisations, invitations to found one, the default model keys and mail sender, and the Operations page. They see nothing inside an organisation: they set it up or send an invitation to found it, seat an owner, suspend it or delete it; the owners run the rest.

For the cloud service the operator is draften; on your own installation it is your administrator. More in Installation.

What roles cannot do

Who changed what

Every change of a role, an instruction or a setting is written into the change history: who, what, from what to what and when. The record cannot be edited or deleted.

Inviting someone

  1. Open Organisation → People and roles.
  2. Click Invite and enter an e-mail address.
  3. Pick the role in the organisation. Access to a particular mailbox is added separately.
  4. The invitation is sent from the address the organisation has set as its outgoing mail. If the organisation has none of its own, it comes from the operator of the installation. Never from the assistant's mailbox.

The link for setting a password is valid for 7 days. Anyone who signs in to draften with a Microsoft or Google account needs no password link at all — the invitation only tells them where to sign in.

Sending an invitation again invalidates the old link and starts the period over. If someone still has the old invitation open, tell them to use the new one.

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