User Roles

Permission management in ActivityTimeline is done through User Roles which are separate from Jira permission schemes and govern visibility and actions of the users of ActivityTimeline.

There are 2 ‘Power roles’: Admin & Manager that allow to create and manage teams, generate reports and timesheets and assign/approve vacations/sick leaves, etc. and 3 ‘Employee’ roles that are assigned to majority the users in the organisation.

Role	Recommended for	Access to application	Additional permissions

Role	Recommended for	Access to application	Additional permissions
Administrator user role	Jira admins C-level managers	Has full access to all ActivityTimeline configuration settings including the Dashboard.	Can create/edit and approve custom events like Placeholders or Vacations. This user may delete other users and change the permissions of other users. Only a user with an Administrator role may access Setup Wizard or perform a refresh of users, issues, boards, filters or projects from JIRA.
Manager user role	Global managers (have access to all teams) Department leads Project Managers Team leaders	User with this role has full access to the Dashboard and can manage teams. He/she can edit members of existing teams and create new teams. Can modify users' positions and skills. Full access to Planning, Tracking and Reporting functionality	Can create/edit and approve custom events like Placeholders or Vacations. All actions performed by ‘Employee’-roles.
Power Employee user role	Senior level employees Team leads People who mentor other employees	Can schedule tasks for himself/herself and other team members Can change statuses of the task Log work to Jira tasks Can see schedule for all existing teams on the Dashboard No Access to Timesheets or reports of other users	User with this role can access the Dashboard, view JIRA tickets and perform a drag'n'drop, move or resize of JIRA tickets. Can create/edit custom events.
Employee user role	Default role for all employees All non-manager roles that are only responsible for their tasks	Can only see his/her own timeline and timeline of users that in the same team as this user Can schedule tasks for himself/herself Log work to Jira tasks	User with this role has an access to the schedule of the teams he/she belongs to. This user can see just the issues that were assigned to him/her and their teammates. Can create/edit custom events for teams he/she belongs to.
Limited Employee user role (default for newly added users)	For all organisations that don’t allow employees to see tasks/issues/events of other employees	Only access to personal timeline Can create new task for himself/herself Can log time to Jira tasks	User with this role can see his/her own timeline schedule only. This user will see just the issues that were assigned to him/her. Can create/edit custom events on his/her timeline only.

Restrictions

Activity Timeline add-on allows assigning different types of Restrictions applied in addition to other roles:

Restrictions	Access to Configurations	Access to modules

Restrictions	Access to Configurations	Access to modules
Semi Read-Only user role	This role can be applied in addition to Power Employee or Employee Roles. Has the same access to all ActivityTimeline configuration settings as the original role.	Users with this role have full access to their own timeline and read-only access to the timeline of other users. If a user has just this role then he/she will have the same access as 'Employee' but in a semi read-only mode.
Read-only user role:	This role can be applied in addition to any other role. Has the same access to all ActivityTimeline configuration settings as the original role.	Users with this role will have read-only access to the dashboard. If a user has just this role then he/she will have the same access as 'Limited Employee' but in a read-only mode.

Employee user role is set as a default role for newly added users.

This can be changed by Default role for new users in configuration : Synchronization > Refresh Users > Users Settings.

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