Restricting activity publishing to certain user permissions

In Citizen Space, on your request, we can restrict the ability to publish activities to certain levels of admin user.

The default setting in Citizen Space is that all Individual, Department and Site Admin users can publish their activities. You can find out more about what the different types of admin user can do in this article, which has a handy table of permissions.

If you wish to restrict publishing to only the higher-level permission users, we can set it so that:

• Only Department and Site Admin users can publish, or
• Only Site Admins alone can publish

Your Delib customer success manager will be able to set this up for you if you email us via our support email. The rest of this article details how this affects users who are no longer able to publish their activities.

What does this mean for users who cannot publish their activities?

For any level of admin that you have blocked from publishing activities, they will:

• Have the Publish and Retract buttons on the dashboard greyed out. If the user selects the 'why not?' link it will tell them permission is restricted.
• Need to request that a Site Admin publishes their activity (or a Department Admin if you have allowed them to publish activities, too).

• Not have access to the 'Edit Activity Details' section nor the 'Online Survey' section of their activity once it has been published by someone with publishing permissions.

  
• The rest of the dashboard remains the same, so they can still publish:
  • The results of their activity
  • We Asked, You Said, We Did details and
  • If you are using Response Publishing, any responses which have been approved for publishing.