Roles¶
A role is the relationship between you and a piece of content (a Song, a Book or a Playlist) and determines what you can do with it: edit it, share it, manage its access, or just read it.
The roles¶
| Role | Who they are | What they can do |
|---|---|---|
| Creator | the person who created the content (only one) | everything: edit, share, manage roles, delete |
| Owner | an owner, close to the creator (songs and books only) | edit and manage; the creator role can be transferred to them |
| Collaborator | a collaborator | edit the content |
| Viewer | read-only | open and read; comment on a song under review |
| Subscriber | subscribed to a public song or book | open and read (from the catalogue) |
| Via book | in your library through a book you subscribed to | open and read |
In the Library filters the roles are summarised as Creator, Can modify (creator/owner/collaborator) and View only (viewer/subscriber).
Playlists have fewer roles: only Creator, Collaborator and Viewer. A playlist has no Owner and no Subscriber (a playlist is never public). Whoever joins a playlist through its link becomes a Viewer, and only the creator manages the people and the sharing of a playlist.
Managing roles¶
From the Manage roles panel (in the Library) the creator or an owner can (for a playlist, only the creator):
- invite a person by email, assigning a role (owner, collaborator, viewer; for a playlist only collaborator or viewer);
- remove someone's role;
- transfer the creator role to another person — note: by transferring it you lose all permissions on the content and can no longer manage it (the transfer stays pending until the other person accepts).
Anyone holding a role on someone else's content can resign from it at any time.
Review comments¶
On a song with review turned on (the creator or an owner turns it on, from the Library) the creator, owners, collaborators and viewers can write comments in View; subscribers can't. Everyone edits their own comments; marking them as resolved or deleting other people's is up to the creator, owners and collaborators.
Access requests¶
If content is private, someone trying to open it without access can request it: the creator receives a notification (the bell in the Library) with which to grant or ignore the request.
Roles govern who can do what; the way a piece of content is reached (and with what implications) instead depends on the kind of link: see Links & sharing.