User roles and permissions - Alfresco Content Services - 23.4 - 23.4 - Ready - Alfresco - external

A user’s role determines what they can and cannot do in a site. Each role has a default set of permissions.

The following sections describe these permissions. In general:

• Managers have full rights to all site content - what they have created themselves and what other site members have created.
• Collaborators have full rights to the site content that they own; they have rights to edit but not delete content created by other site members.
• Contributors have full rights to the site content that they own; they cannot edit or delete content created by other site members.
• Consumers have view-only rights in a site: they cannot create their own content.

• Coordinator - has full rights to all content - what they have created themselves and what others have created.
• Editor - has rights to edit file properties and check files in and out; they cannot create their own content.

Your Alfresco Administrator can also add additional roles.

Site managers can change a site role for the site users.

If you’re a member of two user groups which have different permissions then you will get the sum total of all the permissions. For example, if Group 1 has permission to view a file and Group 2 has permission to view and edit a file, then you would have view and edit permission for the file.