User Permissions

StatusDashboard administrative user permissions can be modified by navigating to User Accounts.  User permissions are used to restrict certain features and functionality within the StatusDashboard platform.

User permissions are managed in two complementary ways:

1. Role Based Permissions: Allow StatusDashboard administrators broad, role-based access to features and functionality within the StatusDashboard platform.  For example, creating events, or managing status dashboards.
2. Service Based Permissions (optional): When enabled, assign StatusDashboard administrators access to specific services, after which they can only manage services, events and status dashboards that contain the services for which they have access.  

Role Based Permissions

Administrator	Superuser: may perform any function.
Activity Log	Access the activity log. Update the activity log configuration.
API	Manage StatusDashboard via the API. When this permission is enabled, the user account will also have access to view and update their API key.
Dashboards	View, create, update and delete status dashboards. Note: users with the dashboards permission have access to all configuration areas for status dashboards, except subscribers (email, sms, webhook). To manage subscribers, users must have the subscribers permission.
Digital Signs	View, create, update and delete digital signs.
Events	View, create, update and delete incident and maintenance events. View, create, update and delete maintenance templates.
Finance	Activate a StatusDashboard payment plan with a credit card. View and update payment information. Receive email notifications about invoices and credit card payments.
Integrations	View and configure integration settings.
Notifications	View and configure individual notification settings. View and configure individual integration settings. View and manage dashboard subscribers (email, SMS, webhook). View and update default notifications settings.
Services	View, add, update and delete dashboard services including groups and descriptions.
Subscribers	View, add, update and delete status dashboard subscribers (email, sms, webhook). Note: If a user does not also have the dashboards permission, they will not be able to navigate to the subscribers location in the administration portal and will need to use direct links: https://www.statusdashboard.com/admin/dashboard/notifications/[email|sms|webhook]/subscribers?i=[dashboard_id]
Uptime Reports	View and update uptime reports functionality.
Users	View, add, update and delete user accounts. View, create, modify and activate the Admin Login Whitelist. Enable / Disable Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality.

 

Service Based Permissions

Service based permissions must be enabled on a global account level before they can be assigned to user accounts.  To enable service based permissions for your StatusDashboard account, navigate to Services > Service Options > Permissions.

Once enabled, service permissions can be assigned to individual user accounts by navigating to User Accounts, editing the relevant user account, and selecting the all services for which the user should have access in the Service Permissions card.

Note: When service permissions are enabled and a user is accessing a feature that impacts services, that user must have role based access to the feature in addition to service based access to the impacted services. For example, for a user to create an event that impacts Service-A, that user must have the Events role, in addition to Service permissions for Service-A.