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How do permissions work in Dash?
With Dash you can customise exactly who has access to which folder, and what level of access they should have to it.
Watch our video for a short overview of permissions:
Types of permission groups in Dash
All non-admin users must have at least one of the following permission groups applied to them:
Basic
View assets
Download assets
Create and share collections
Share assets
Cannot upload, edit, or delete assets
Contributor
View assets
Download assets
Upload assets
Edit and delete assets
Create new folders within folders that they have been given Contributor access to (see giving folder-specific permissions below)
Optionally, contributors can be required to submit their assets for approval by an admin before they become available to all other users.
Giving folder-specific permissions
By default, your Dash account comes with two permission groups:
Basic all folders
Contributor all folders
This is the simplest way of organising your users, giving each user either Basic or Contributor access to all folders.
If you would like to give different permissions to certain folders, you can do this too by creating additional Groups.
Creating a group
A group will allow you to specify Basic or Contributor level access to specific folders.
To create a new group, go to Admin > Users & Groups, click on the Groups tab, then click the Add group button.
Give your group a name and pick either Basic or Contributor.
Then choose which folders members of the group can have that level of access to.
Example
If you want certain users to be able to edit assets in a folder called Staff photos and also be able to upload their own picture, you might:
Create a new group, and call it "Contributor staff photos".
Set the group permissions to Contributor
For folder access, select the Only the folders your choose option and only tick the Staff photos folder
Edit users and assign them to this group.
Assigning a group to a user
This can be done either when inviting a new user (note, the option to pick what groups this user is in will only show if you have unticked the Admin user checkbox), or by editing an existing user.