Standard Permission Levels for Spaces

Overview

This article tabulates the standard permission levels for 'Spaces' in Jive and the details of what each level allows a user to do.

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Information

Jive includes several predefined permission levels for spaces that you can assign to user groups or individual users. You can see the list of available permission levels by navigating to Admin Console > Permissions > Space Permissions. Additionally, you can also add custom levels, as described in Custom Permission Levels and User Overrides for Spaces.

 

Standard Space Levels

The following table lists the standard permission levels for spaces, along with a summary of the access granted by each.

 

Space Permission Level	Access Granted
Administer	Design the space layout, read and write all content types, delete (but not edit) comments, assign permissions to users and user groups, and delete the space.
Moderate	Read and write all content types and edit other user content.
Create	Read and write all content types.
Contribute	Comment on commentable content types and reply to questions and discussion threads.
View	View content.
Discuss	Read and write in discussions and questions, as well as contribute to all other content types.
No Access	Only applicable when creating a user override. Use this to prevent access to a space, as it has no entitlements.

 

Access Details

The following table lists each default space permission level against the specific details of the access, whether allowed or restricted.

 

Space Permission Level

View

Create

Reply

Comment

Attach File

Insert Image

Rate

Vote

Create Project

Create Announcement

Edit Comment

Delete Comment

Moderate

Administer

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Moderate

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Create

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✘

✘

✘

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Contribute

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View

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✘

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✘

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✘

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✘

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✘

✘

✘

Discuss

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✔

✔

✘

✘

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✘

✘

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