This topic explains what Author users cannot access in greater detail.
Community management
Authors cannot access the following areas in Community:
- Recruit
Authors can also access these areas from the navigation bar:
Authors can view the reports in Metrics. However, they cannot export member participation data or modify the participation rate calculator in the community profile report.
Activity creation and distribution
Authors can view, create, and edit activities owned by themselves or other users. Authors cannot edit the email footer while editing a distribution email.
Authors cannot add or edit survey scripts.
Authors can schedule and send email invitations, and generate live links for activities, when the Can schedule distributions setting in their user permissions is enabled.
For any migrated Sparq 1 surveys that had User Permissions set, the following occurs:
- If a survey had Apply Security selected, the survey will not be visible to any Author users in Community.
- If a survey had assigned Authors or Observers, these settings are not migrated.
There is no way to set user permissions on newly created activities in Community.
Profile variables
Authors cannot create or edit profile variables.
Search
Authors cannot search surveys and results.
Forums
Authors can create, configure, moderate and delete forums in the Surveys app. They can also invite community members to participate and export the forum participation data.
Authors can't manage users or configure the settings for the community that hosts the forum, but they can create or use filters when inviting community members.