This has been an issue for us since day 1. It would be nice if I can assign a specific level to various tasks (administrative) and then assign each admin access to tasks based upon the rights/privileges assigned to them. This will prevent exploration in the system and potential mods that could have disastrous effects. Some that I may not be able to undo. Having a tighter front end makes sense to protect the system.

I agree with other comments here. Specifically, I would like most of those who have limited admin read / write to be able to read MOST of the admin areas of the site. Most would not need to access the Account page and some would not need to access Membership details.

We are an organization that needs the ability to limit an administrator to a selected subset of information. Ideally through selection of a data base field. For example, an Administrator type that gives full capabilities based on the contents of a specific member database field. Such that Jane Doe as full administration capabilities, where the member database field "any_field" contains "defined_text". Again, this limited administrator would be able to manage emails, but could only send to members with "any_field" contains "defined_text".
Only a Full Administrator would be able to set the "any_field" contains "defined_text" limitation.

Admin permissions is very weak, therefore not giving us the control we need to assign personel to certain aspects of the site. I would like to see access broken down to a lot more detail than page. We should be able to restrict access and assign a coordinator also to individual ROWS as well as GADGETS. Right now we have to do a lot of work to get around this shortcoming. Club Express provides this level of control, so why not WA?

Yet another vote for this. I'd like for our membership chair to be able to access the information involving membership, but not set up invoices, etc. So, I can either give her full read-only access to everything, or I can trust that she's not going to make changes to stuff she shouldn't.

In essence, allow each role to specify whether they have read only or full access to that role.

yes this feature would be very helpful to our organisation, Allowing access to Membership details is too much access for administrators we want to manage only a particular member level. It would be great to be able to assign admin rights to specific levels and groups without compromising the entire data. Privacy is an issue at the moment.

Did you perhaps see that email from Phil Dolan
Chief Marketing Officer
Personify Corporation
today at about 11:48 EDT telling us all how wonderful things are going to be?
(Sort of sounded like a politician telling us what he would do if we elected him - 'stretch goals for those of you who live in ON').

Anyway suggest replying to him with all the concerns.

Now sadly the reply to address is a generic address so who knows if he will see any responses.
Just a pity that a C suite executive hides behind a generic email address

YES! I love WA but this feature is really needed to make the experience better!!

One thing I can recommend is if you need someone to look at content throughout the system but not make changes use the Read Only role. For many this is good enough to make decisions as exports can be made. Once things are running there usually is no need to make changes at all, so if you cannot abide by allowing module administrators to have access to make changes, then just switch them to full admin- read only. It works great!

This is an increasing issue around events and ability to edit contact data. Surely there can be something done to start tightening this up?
The bigger an organisation gets the more of an issue this becomes as tasks have to be delegated to many people. a busy operation will have lots of event organisers - and they shouldn't be able to change member data.

Please address this flaw in admin user permissions.

No updates here, sorry.

Any development on this item since 2018 ?

Really need this, at least at some level. I don't want to give lots of people Event Manager rights, but I do want to permit some people to download the list of registrants for an event. In other words, read (to create reports or exports) but not create new events.

Has the been any updates to this? This should be in the top of Wild Apricots priority list if you ask me. It scares me to death knowing how much access some of our admins have access to.

Since there currently is no means of members having an ability to edit just their own complex events, we decided to use the honor system to encourage members to not edit others’ evens. We started to give them all Event Manager privileges....until we realized that the Event Manager could see all contacts, the detailed financial data of all members, and all of our organization summary financial reports. That was way too much information!

The granularity of administrative functions needs to be drastically increased. Since this granularity defines workflows it is a higher priority than most users realize.

There are only 5 admin levels, but we can have many members assigned to them. It would be helpful if we could have more granular levels, for example, one level just for Financial stuff, maybe another just for Interest Group Leaders, etc. Having multiple members with access to privileges they might not need could create a problem if you have one that likes to "experiment". Even better if we could "create a level" to suit a specific range of tasks.

Absolutely! We are a Newcomers Club with over 25 group leaders that need only very narrowly defined access to create/monitor events and send group emails. They only serve for one year and therefore only have limited training. The risk of them damaging other parts of the system is quite high and we need their access restricted.

Another vote for customizable administrator roles! Totally agree that it is a matter of way too much access for my administrator that is in charge of only a subset of the members (easily identifiable via member Level).

Allowing access to Membership details is too much access for administrators we want to manage only a particular member level. It would be great to be able to assign admin rights to specific levels and groups without compromising the entire data. Privacy is an issue at the moment.