Searching permissions

Search for users with specific permissions

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Written by Charles Lynam
Updated over a week ago

There are times when you want to know who can see and administer different rosters and functions. This can be helpful to audit access to make sure that permissions are appropriate, or to find someone who can do a certain task.

On the Admin page, use the Search permissions menu. You can then search for any type of permission (A1). Your results will be presented in two tabs (A2): those permission groups that allow such an activity, and the individuals that have those permissions.

Note that site administrators do not appear in the search function: site administrators can always see and administer any area of HosPortal. To review your site administrators, use the Site administrators menu on the Admin page.

You can search for permissions by:

  • whether someone has view vs admin permissions. If a user does not have either of these permissions they cannot access that function or data at all.

  • permissions over various types of data, such as shifts, documents, leave, users, etc.

  • permissions of various breadth of scope, such as over a single roster, a roster group or the entire site. Note that anyone who is classified as having permission over a broader domain, such as a site or roster group, will automatically be included when you search for a smaller domain, such as a single roster.

In the example below, the search (B1) is looking for people who have admin permissions over the '1st call' roster. The search is showing one person with this permission, Jane Collins, in addition to the site administrators. To manage her permissions click on her name (B2) and you will be taken to the permissions tab on her personal profile page.

To manage permissions, see this article here.

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