I have a newsletter editor. The newsletter template is an email template. But to do the newsletter, I need to endow her with full admin privileges which is way more than she needs. Newsletter editor seems like a task on par with contacts manager or events manager and thus should enjoy its own set of limited access privileges in order to get that job done. I would prefer not to bestow full power over the contacts, finances, webpages, etc. just to edit the newsletter. It is not even necessary that she has power to send out as I as full admin can do that quickly.

Agree with many other comments. We need to provide certain access which would include web editing and contact lists, sending emails. But NO access to member or financial transactions. Currently have to allow a full admin to get these functions which is way too broad. Would be happy customizing my own if needed.

Hey WA,

The first mention of this request was in 2011. Any comment on when we may be able to see it? I currently have 5 clients using WA but will not implement more sites if they want to use emails because the communication/email sending is not separate from member and donation information. Thanks

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

Not soon, at least not in the nearest several months.

Will this be implemented soon? Is there an update? It is too risky for my organization to give multiple people the existing admin roles just to be able to send email because they can MODIFY/ADD/REMOVE other members' data.

If you support this wishlist item, please consider supporting "Custom Administrator Permissions." The idea is to allow the main administrator to customize and create different admin roles based on their organization's unique needs, rather than adding another predefined role that may or may not suit everyone. I see this idea has been suggested in the comments of this wishlist item by multiple members, but the title of this item doesn't suggest this. Here's the link to Custom Administrator Permissions: https://forums.wildapricot.com/forums/308932-wishlist/suggestions/12479814-custom-administrator-permissions

This is a very important idea. We are a choir and we need people to be able to email the members but without having any other rights.

Make a Newsletter/Email Editor role that only has access to these features.

Yes please. How soon?

We have several people that need to send emails to the organization. Instead of them having to be an administrative role, have a special system group, Authorized Email Senders Group, for this role with full rights to the Email area. This would not count against the Max Administrators count.

We have volunteers to handle our member newsletter and our parent newsletter. Neither of which should have access to our membership and contact information but they do. We would like to have more volunteers but need to limit their access.

The newsletter writer should not be able to see donation information. Currently we have to give a secretary full access in order to send out a newsletter or an email. It has limited our ability to use the product. We had to choose between using an outside service for email blasts or an outside service for donation/financial information.

Add more admin levels.
For example: I need an admin level for our newsletter writer that doesn't allow access to member records. The newsletter writer should have access only to select contact categories (ie, all contacts, members only, all but archived, etc.) to send out newsletters.

We are about to launch a new WA site for our school. We selected WA for the ability to have events, donations, web site and give members (students and families) access to private info (directories, teacher sub webpages etc). I will admit I did not pay enough attention to the detail about admins. I saw that there were levels for web site, donations, events, full. I never once thought that a communications function (ie sending out eblasts which is done by a secretary) would have the same privileges as a donations manager (our development director) that can now see what every parent or person has made in donations. I am truly amazed at this. Perhaps people really do not use WA for the donations piece??? Please address soon. Not sure what we will do at our end now. But donations access (anything financial) needs to be limited to people who have donations privileges only (and full admins of course).

Stunned at 10:30 at night as I prepare the enewsletter training for our secretary tomorrow. My bad.
Martin

We have 100 groups managed by convenors (group moderators). It would be a major benefit to us if each could run a saved search and email the resulting list. The saved searches are already in place and used to restrict access to each group's webpage.
This could be provided by a new admin role or by a Member Directory gadget modified with a "Email List" button. The latter would be preferable.

Hi Selina,

Thanks for posting.

This sounds similar to this thread http://forums.wildapricot.com/forums/308932-wishlist/suggestions/8825644-add-new-admin-role-limited-to-sending-emails-7991

Should I merge these?

[quote user="TBOC"]For example: The main admin makes member XYZ a "support admin". Now functionality of the whole system can be assigned per checkmark click (checkmark – not radio button even if it is oval in my example below):
* Manage Contacts
* O View
* O Add
* O Edit
* O Delete
*

* Manage Blogs
* O Add
* O Edit
* O Delete
*

* Manage eMails
* O Edit
* O Send
* O View Log
*
* <snip>[/quote]
*

+1 for this.It's a big change. And of course, most Account Admins will be totally bewildered by the long list of permission checkboxes, and will start a new Wishlist thread to put it back the old way. :)
*

* So also provide a dropdown at the top to check off all the boxes for each of the existing roles (and maybe some new ones). Then you have both simplicity and flexibility.

Good note Larry! We're watching this thread closely, but unfortunately we can't make any promises yet.

I also would like to see this this request implemented. While listening to your webinar last week on Leveraging the Membership Database, I noted that recommendation #3, eliminating shadow systems, applied directly to my organization.

We have group leaders, committee chairmen and others keeping their own email lists for use in communicating with their respective subgroups. I would love to give them the ability to create, send, and track delivery of emails within Wild Apricot without having the ability to do other things in the system.