Here's an example of why customized admin levels are critical: We depend on volunteers to post upcoming classes & events. But that also gives them access to financial aspects of classes, which in our situation is a real problem. We've had instances where people went in and canceled their own invoices. We need the customized approach so people can manage the content-creation part but not the finances.

Every association is different and we should have the ability to set up Admin permissions to fit our needs. Period. Please make the magic happen.

Hi D Lee, not sure if I understand you correctly. Admin with "Membership manager" access rights DOES have access to customize membership emails.

We need this. It also seems weird that the Membership Admin can not edit the Automatic Membership Emails... Would be nice if that was a specific Admin feature.

Would be a great aid to Administration to provide functional access to individuals. Currently everything has to be done via one admin to keep controls and consistency

I like the radio button option. My huge problem is that read-only access comes with the ability to export contacts. Doesn't feel appropriate for read-only....

I merged the last 2 comments into this thread (Custom permissions) as this is currently seeing as the best approach to solve this and a lot of other related scenarios.

Could you elaborate on the problem this creates? E.g. Why wouldn't you want a board member to see financial information, if they can see membership information?

Note, we're not trying to split hairs here, instead we really want to understand the specific problems this would solves.

I am having the same issue. I have around 25-50 people on our board at any given time. They all want to be able to view certain aspects of the website backend, like membership. But I don't want them to have access to everything. Why can't the different levels also have different sections?
Like Membership Admin: choice #1 Full Access, Choice #2 Read-Only, Choice #3 View database, but not financial/Invoice information.

More ADMINISTRATOR selections/restrictions.

This is critical, we have events that range in price from free to $6000. I have to give every person coordinating any event full access to all of these events. This is a major error waiting to happen. Accidentally, screwing up a $6000 event can cost us a lot of money.

I agree that the administrators should be able to customise the permissions to suit the organisation. I would also recommend this be implemented ASAP

I agree with this request and strongly recommend that WildApricot implement as soon as possible

I'm having a member who is assigned to "Newsletter Editing". It is a must to have very detailed access restrictions for admins.

Would also like the ability to limit event managers access only to the events they are assigned.

We would find these suggestions very helpful.

I support the idea of customized roles as long as one can separate the "donations" tab on a members record from view of admins with defined limited permissions. The separation of "finances" is too broad as it is an individual's donations that should be excluded from view from an admin who is only charged with the ability to create and send emails (which also involves access to membership records.)

This would be a useful feature every time we have a new secretary or editor or member of the tiny part-time management staff.

Back in the monochrome screen days, I ran a Unix-based Novell network. Like MS-DOS but better, its OS allowed assigning the classic rights to individuals folder-by-folder or more broadly -- by typing commands. The current WildApricot interface is superior to that. More, I'd like to give a newbie the rights to look around, comparing our reality with the tutorials, and to mess around as web editor in an admins-only sandbox. As it stands, I can do one or the other. TIP: You can go back and forth, changing your trainee's rights in moments.

When considering administrative positions, there should be the ability to assign an administrator(s) for a specific web page, This would allow a web page to be created for a group and then a member(s) could maintain the page as needed without the site administrator's intervention. For example, any file upload for the group - minutes, notes, etc, have to be done by an administrator with web page permissions. When creating a page admin, this should not count against the organization's administrator count.

Our organization could use a level for Event Manager and Event Leader role. The Event Manager role would be able to create new events and designate the Event Leader. The Event Leader could then manage their event details, participants, event finances, post event reports, etc. The role of the Event Manager is to oversee the multiple events and provide the Event Leaders support.

Currently we have far more event leaders than we have Admin roles and the Admin role gives far to many rights to these people.

I would consider this to be the single most thing that would help our organization.

Thank you.