Module authorization levels

Review module authorization levels, security sets, and required Staff site navigation access for Full staff users and Casual staff users.

Understanding the areas

Each Staff access area grants a Full staff user or Casual staff user permission to perform a function in the Staff site. Review the following information to understand what a user will have access to based on the area and level assigned to them.

System

The System authorization level grants system administration, as the SysAdmin role does. In fact, they are intrinsically paired; If you give a user Level 8 authorization for System, they automatically join the SysAdmin role; if you remove that Level 8, they automatically drop the SysAdmin role.

Do not remove a user's SysAdmin role without also lowering the System level; parts of the system that consider them an administrator will conflict with the parts that do not. Make sure they have both or neither. The other Staff access drop-downs (module authorization levels) are not updated to level 8. If you need the SysAdmin to have access to the remaining Staff access areas, you must manually update those. See Assigning security credentials and staff access for more information.

Levels 0-6 in the System drop-down have no effect on the out-of-the-box content that the staff user can access. The only level in the System drop-down that affects out-of-the-box access is level 8 - System Setup, which automatically applies the SysAdmin role to the user. Level 8 - System cannot be applied to a Casual staff user.

Customers

Review the following to understand what out-of-the-box functionality becomes available based on the level assigned: 

  • Level 2 - Reports:
    • Membership dashboard
    • Contact, Membership, and Accounting reports (must also be in the Reporting Users Full Control security set)
  • Level 4 - Full Entry/Edit:
    • Membership > Automatic payments > Enrollments (must also have Dues - 4)
  • Level 5 - Table Maintenance:
    • Enable the Assign purchaser to a group setting when defining products (must also have Orders - 4)
  • Level 8 - System Setup:
    • Managing duplicates
Dues

Review the following to understand what out-of-the-box functionality becomes available based on the level assigned: 

  • Level 4 - Full Entry/Edit:
    • Generating membership renewals
    • Issuing renewal notifications
    • Reversing open invoices
    • Membership > Automatic payments
  • Level 5 - Table Maintenance:
    • Billing cycles
    • Billing products
    • Prorating rules
  • Level 8 - System Setup:
    • Managing expired members
Events

Review the following to understand what out-of-the-box functionality becomes available based on the level assigned: 

  • Level 2 - Reports:
    • Event dashboard
    • Event reports (must also be in the Reporting Users Full Control security set)
  • Level 5 - Table Maintenance:
    • Creating events
    • Event templates
    • Event pricing group management (must also have Orders -5 OR only have Finance - 5)
  • Level 8 - System Setup:
    • Managing duplicates
Fundraising

Review the following to understand what out-of-the-box functionality becomes available based on the level assigned: 

  • Level 1 - Basic Display Only:
    • Gift requests
  • Level 2 - Reports:
    • Fundraising dashboard
    • Fundraising reports (must also be in the Reporting Users Full Control security set)
    • Finding gifts
    • Moves management dashboard
  • Level 3 - Limited Entry/Edit:
    • Entering gifts
    • Receipting
    • Tribute notifications
    • Gift Aid
    • Reversing open pledges
  • Level 4 - Full Entry/Edit:
    • Automatic payments for donations
    • Importing donations
    • Premium set management
  • Level 5 - Table Maintenance:
    • Adding new gift items
  • Level 8 - System Setup:
    • Managing duplicates
Orders

Review the following to understand what out-of-the-box functionality becomes available based on the level assigned: 

  • Level 2 - Reports:
    • Commerce dashboard
    • Commerce reports (must also be in the Reporting Users Full Control security set)
    • Finding orders
  • Level 4 - Full Entry/Edit:
    • Adding products
    • Processing orders
    • Creating and modifying inventory receipts
  • Level 5 - Table Maintenance:
    • Creating promotion codes
    • Managing product groups (must also have Events - 5 OR only Finance - 5)
Finance

Review the following to understand what out-of-the-box functionality becomes available based on the level assigned: 

  • Level 2 - Reports:
    • Finance dashboard
    • Pay Central dashboard
    • Finding and adjusting invoices
    • Finding and adjusting payments
    • Finding and posting batches
  • Level 4 - Full Entry/Edit:
    • Closing procedures (credit invoices, invoice write-offs, GL export)
  • Level 5 - Table Maintenance:
    • Product and event pricing groups (or have Orders - 5 & Events - 5)
Certification

Review the following to understand what out-of-the-box functionality becomes available based on the level assigned: 

  • Level 3 - Limited Entry/Edit:
    • Managing enrollments by program and/or enrollee
    • Managing pending approvals
    • Providers
  • Level 4 - Full Entry/Edit:
    • Managing inactive enrollments
    • Creating and editing programs
  • Level 5 - Table Maintenance:
    • Creating and editing unit types

Security Sets

Throughout iMIS, whenever you configure access settings, you see a drop-down list of available security settings that you can apply to individual folders and objects. These security sets offer you easier control and faster iMIS performance than defining custom ones.

Administrators Full Control

The following navigation items have the Administrators Full Control set applied:

  • Reports: All reports, Content reports
  • RiSE 
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Note

Although the RiSE navigation has the Administrators Full Control security set applied, you do not have to be a system administrator to have access to RiSE. See Granting a staff user access to RiSE without making them a system administrator.

  • Settings
  • Reporting Users Full Control

    When the Reporting Users Full Control security set is applied to navigation, only those who have the Reporting security group selected have access to those navigation items. The following navigation items have the Reporting Users Full Control set applied:

    • Contact reports: Reporting Users Full Control + Customers 2
    • Membership reports: Reporting Users Full Control + Customers 2
    • Accounting reports: Reporting Users Full Control + Customers 2
    • Fundraising reports: Reporting Users Full Control + Fundraising 2
    • Event reports: Reporting Users Full Control + Events 2
    • Commerce reports: Reporting Users Full Control + Orders 2
    • Certification reports: Reporting Users Full Control
    • Report Writer: Reporting Users Full Control

    To add the Reporting security group to a staff user's account, do the following:

    1. Go to the staff users account page.
    2. Click the Security tab.
    3. From the Security groups area, select Add.
    4. Adding a new group to a contact's account

    5. Enable Reporting, then click OK.
    6. Adding a group from the list

    7. Click Save.
    Campaign, Segmentation, RFM, Process manager

    There are several navigation items under Marketing that require specific security groups:

    • Campaign Users Full Control
      • Campaigns: Track campaigns, Define campaigns, Define inserts, Record responses, View output, Import source codes
    • Campaign Admins Full Control
      • Campaigns: Settings
    • Segmentation Users Full Control
      • Defining segments
    • Segmentation Admins Full Control
      • Segmentation settings
    • RFM Users Full Control
      • Run analytics
    • RFM Admins Full Control
      • RFM settings
    • Opportunity Users Full Control
      • Process manager: Projects, Tasks
    • Opportunity Admins Full Controls
      • Process manager settings

    To add any of these security groups to a staff user's account, do the following:

    1. Go to the staff users account page.
    2. Click the Security tab.
    3. From the Security groups area, select Add.
    4. Adding a group

    5. Enable any of the following:
      • CampaignUser
      • CampaignAdmin
      • SegUser
      • SegAdmin
      • RFMUser
      • RFMAdmin
      • OpportunityUser
      • OpportunityAdmin
    6. Click OK, then click Save.

    Out-of-the-box navigation

    Full staff users and Casual staff users can access the Staff site based on their authorization levels. The out-of-the-box authorization levels can be updated and viewed from the Staff site sitemap. From RiSE > Site Builder > Manage sitemaps, select Staff site from the drop-down, then click the Access settings tab and expand the Staff module authorization levels drop-down.

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    Note

    Some functionality in the Staff site will require you to have a license key. Contact ASI for more information.

    The following tables outline the required authorization level a staff user must have to access each navigation item.

    Community

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    Note

    See Contact account pages (Party.aspx) for more specific information about security when viewing contact and organization pages.

    Navigation Item Security Set Level Assignment License Required
    Dashboard All Staff Full Control    
    Engagement:
    • Overall
    • Organizations
    All Staff Full Control    
    Find contacts All Staff Full Control    
    Add contact All Staff Full Control    
    Data integrity All Staff Full Control    
    Manage duplicates All Staff Full Control Customers: 8 Note: There are two different versions of Duplicate Merge. Standard is available out-of-the-box, and Premium requires additional licensing. See Managing duplicate contacts for more information.
    Duplicate merge logs All Staff Full Control    
    Committees All Staff Full Control   Yes
    Communities All Staff Full Control   Yes
    Volunteers:
    • Dashboard
    • Find volunteers
    All Staff Full Control    
    Groups All Staff Full Control    
    Import contacts All Staff Full Control    
    Security:
    • Users
    All Staff Full Control Customers: 4  
    • Roles
    Administrators Full Control    

    Membership

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    Note

    See Contact account pages (Party.aspx) for more specific information about security when viewing contact and organization pages.

    Navigation Item Security Set Level Assignment License Required
    Dashboard All Staff Full Control Customers: 2  
    Chapters All Staff Full Control    
    Renewals:
    • Generate renewals
    • Issue notifications
    All Staff Full Control Dues: 4  
    • Reverse open invoices
    All Staff Full Control Dues: 4  
    Manage expired members All Staff Full Control Dues: 8  
    Automatic payments:
    • Dashboard
    • Process payments
    • Review payments
    All Staff Full Control Dues: 4 Yes
    • Enrollments
    All Staff Full Control Customers: 4 Yes
    Billing cycles All Staff Full Control Dues: 5  
    Billing products All Staff Full Control Dues: 5  
    Prorating rules All Staff Full Control Dues: 5  
    Configuration wizard Administrators Full Control    

    Fundraising

    Navigation Item Security Set Level Assignment License Required

    Dashboard

    All Staff Full Control

    Fundraising: 2

    Yes

    Enter gifts

    All Staff Full Control

    Fundraising: 3

    Yes

    Gift requests All Staff Full Control Fundraising: 1  
    Find gifts All Staff Full Control Fundraising: 2 Yes

    Find gift items

    All Staff Full Control

     

    Yes

    Add gift item

    All Staff Full Control

    Fundraising: 5

    Yes

    Moves management:

    • Dashboard
    All Staff Full Control Fundraising: 2

    Yes

    • My major donors
    All Staff Full Control   Yes
    Automatic payments:
    • Dashboard
    • Process payments
    • Review payments
    • Enrollments
    All Staff Full Control Fundraising: 4 Yes
    Receipting:
    • Issue receipts
    • Find issued receipts
    • Receipt logs
    All Staff Full Control Fundraising: 3  
    Tribute notification:
    • Issue notifications
    • Find issued notifications
    All Staff Full Control Fundraising: 3 Yes

    Gift Aid

    All Staff Full Control

    Fundraising: 3

    Yes

    Reverse open pledges All Staff Full Control Fundraising: 3 Yes
    Recurring payments:
    • Generate expected payments
    • Import payments

    All Staff Full Control

    Fundraising: 4

    Yes

    Import donations

    All Staff Full Control

    Fundraising: 4

    Yes

    Premium sets All Staff Full Control Fundraising: 4 Yes
    Adjustment logs All Staff Full Control Fundraising: 3  

    Events

    Navigation Item Security Set Level Assignment

    Dashboard

    All Staff Full Control

    Events: 2

    Find events

    All Staff Full Control

     

    Find registrations All Staff Full Control  

    Add event

    All Staff Full Control

    Events: 5

    Calendar

    All Staff Full Control

     

    Issue event confirmations

    All Staff Full Control

     
    Manage templates All Staff Full Control Events: 5

    Commerce

    Navigation Item Security Set Level Assignment

    Dashboard

    All Staff Full Control

    Orders: 2

    Find products

    All Staff Full Control

     

    Add product

    All Staff Full Control

    Orders: 4

    Find orders All Staff Full Control Orders: 2

    Process orders:

    • Issue quotes
    • Convert quotes
    • Print shipping orders
    • Ship orders
    • Generate invoices
    • Release backorders
    All Staff Full Control

    Orders: 4

    Promotions

    All Staff Full Control

    Orders: 5

    Pricing groups

    All Staff Full Control

    Orders: 5,

    Events: 5,

    OR

    Finance: 5

    Inventory receipts

    All Staff Full Control

    Orders: 4

    Advertising

    Navigation Item Security Set Level Assignment

    Dashboard

    All Staff Full Control

     

    Media Orders

    All Staff Full Control

     

    Settings:

    • Media assets
    • Representative - territory
    • Mapping
    • Production settings
    All Staff Full Control  

    Marketing

    Navigation Item Security Set License Required
    Communication dashboard Everyone Full Control  
    Advanced email

    All Staff Full Control

    Yes

    Communication templates

    All Staff Full Control

     

    Communication logs All Staff Full Control  
    Campaigns:
    • Track campaigns
    • Define campaigns
    • Define inserts
    • Record responses
    • View output
    • Import source codes

    Campaign Users Full Control

     

    • Settings

    Campaign Admins Full Control

     

    Segmentation:
    • Define segments

    Segmentation Users Full Control

    Yes

    • Settings

    Segmentation Admins Full Control

    Yes

    RFM:
    • Run analytics

    RFM Users Full Control

    Yes

    • Settings

    RFM Admins Full Control

    Yes

    Process manager:
    • Projects
    • Tasks

    Opportunity Users Full Control

    Yes

    • Settings

    Opportunity Admins Full Control

    Yes

    Certification

    Navigation Item Security Set Level Assignment License Required
    Enrollments:
    • By program
    • By enrollee

    All Staff Full Control

    Certification: 3

    Yes

    • Inactive enrollments

    All Staff Full Control

    Certification: 4

    Yes

    Pending approvals:
    • Requirement completions
    • Program completions

    All Staff Full Control

    Certification: 3

    Yes

    Define programs:
    • Program components
    • Program groups
    • Experience programs
    • Certification programs

    All Staff Full Control

    Certification: 4

    Yes

    • Unit types

    All Staff Full Control

    Certification: 5

    Yes

    Providers

    All Staff Full Control

    Certification: 3

    Yes

    Finance

    Navigation Item Security Set Level Assignment
    Dashboard Everyone Full Control Finance: 2

    Invoices

    All Staff Full Control

    Finance: 2

    Pay Central:
    • Dashboard
    • Find payments
    All Staff Full Control Finance: 2
    • Automatic payment transactions
    • Pay Central Live
    Administrators Full Control Finance: 2

    Batches

    All Staff Full Control

    Finance: 2

    Closing procedures:
    • Credit invoices
    • Invoice write-offs
    • General ledger export
    All Staff Full Control Finance: 4

    Reports

    Navigation Item Security Set Level Assignment License Required
    Report Writer Reporting Users Full Control    

    All reports

    Administrators Full Control

     

     

    Contact reports

    Reporting Users Full Control

    Customers: 2

     

    Membership reports Reporting Users Full Control Customers: 2  

    Fundraising reports

    Reporting Users Full Control

    Fundraising: 2

    Yes

    Event reports

    Reporting Users Full Control

    Events: 2

     

    Commerce reports

    Reporting Users Full Control

    Orders: 2

     

    Accounting reports

    Reporting Users Full Control

    Customers: 2

    Yes

    Certification reports Reporting Users Full Control   Yes

    Content reports

    Administrators Full Control

     

     

    RiSE

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    Note

    If you are not a SysAdmin, you must be at least a Full staff user who belongs to at least one content authority group to have access to certain areas of RiSE. Public users who are members of a content authority group cannot access RiSE, but they can interact with content records by using Easy Edit. See Administering security for more information about Full and Public user access.

    Navigation Item Security Set License Required
    Dashboard Administrators Full Control  
    Site Builder:
    • Manage sitemaps

    Administrators Full Control
    OR
    Full user who also belongs to at least one content authority group

     

    • Manage websites

    Administrators Full Control

     

    • Manage shortcuts

    Administrators Full Control
    OR
    Full staff user or Casual staff user who also belongs to at least one content authority group

     

    Page Builder:
    • Manage content
    • Manage layouts
    • Manage images
    • Manage files
    • Task list

    Administrators Full Control
    OR
    Full staff user or Casual staff user who also belongs to at least one content authority group

     

     

     

     

    Theme Builder:
    • Website templates
    Administrators Full Control
    OR
    Full staff user or Casual staff user who also belongs to at least one content authority group
    Yes
    • Website layouts
    Yes
    • Themes
    Administrators Full Control Yes
    • Task list
    Administrators Full Control
    OR
    Full staff user or Casual staff user who also belongs to at least one content authority group
    Yes
    Tagging:
    • Tags
    • Tagged list formats

    Administrators Full Control
    OR
    Full staff user or Casual staff user who also belongs to at least one content authority group

     

    Maintenance:
    • Publishing servers
    • User defined fields
    • Content types
    • Navigation areas
    • Content authority groups
    • Query audit

    Administrators Full Control

     

     

     

     

    Style Guide:
    • Base elements
    • Forms
    • Icons
    • Utilities
    Administrators Full Control  

    Intelligent Query Architect

    Administrators Full Control

     

    Business Object Designer

    Administrators Full Control

     

    Form Builder:
    • Form library
    • Approval queue
    • Health check
    • Form groups
    • Migrate forms

    Administrators Full Control

    Note: There are two different versions of Form Builder. Standard is available out-of-the-box, and Premium requires additional licensing. See Form Builder FAQ for more information.

    Panel Designer:
    • Panel definitions
    • Panel sources
    Administrators Full Control  

    Process automation

    Administrators Full Control

    Note: There are two different versions of Process automation. Standard is available out-of-the-box, and Premium requires additional licensing. See Creating and using scheduled tasks and Creating and using alerts for more information.

    Scoring Administrators Full Control

    Note: There are two different versions of Scoring. Standard is available out-of-the-box, and Premium requires additional licensing. See Scoring for more information.

    Document system

    Administrators Full Control

     

    Workflow:
    • Workflow viewer
    • Workflow items
    • Monitor processes

    Administrators Full Control

     

    Task viewer

    Administrators Full Control

     

    Upgrade log

    Administrators Full Control

     

    Settings

    Navigation Item Security Set Level Assignment License Required

    About iMIS

    Administrators Full Control

     

     

    Organization

    Administrators Full Control

     

     

    Contacts:
    • General
    • Contact security
    • Communication preferences
    • Account management
    • Authentication
    • Open ID Connect
    • Social media
    • Client applications

    Administrators Full Control

    Customers: 5

     

    • Customer types
    • Activity types
    Administrators Full Control Customers: 8  
    • Committee positions
    Administrators Full Control Customers: 5  
    • Committee minutes
     
    • Relationship types
     
    • System options
    Administrators Full Control Customers: 8  
    Addresses:
    • Address formats
    • States and provinces
    • Countries

    Administrators Full Control

    Customers: 5  

    Communities

    Administrators Full Control

    Customers: 5

     

    Membership Administrators Full Control Dues: 5  
    Fundraising:
    • General
    • Gift Aid (UK)
    • Tribute types
    Administrators Full Control Fundraising: 5  
    Events:
    • General
    • Resource types
    Administrators Full Control Events: 8  
    Commerce:
    • General
    • Order types
    • Product categories
    • Shipping
    • Zones

    Administrators Full Control

    Orders: 5  
    • System options

    Administrators Full Control

    Orders: 8  
    Finance:
    • General
    • Financial entities
    Administrators Full Control Finance: 8  
    • Due to/due from
    • GL accounts
    • Pay Central
    • Tax categories
    • Tax codes
    • Tax by zip code
    • VAT exceptions
    Finance: 5  
    • Terms
    Finance: 5  
    • Aging
    Finance: 8  
    RiSE:
    • Quick setup
    • Page builder configuration
    • Search configuration
    • Indexing
    • Process automation
    • Workflow configuration
    • Report formats
    • Recent history

    Administrators Full Control

     

     

    Language translation:

    • General
    • Translation cultures

    Administrators Full Control

     

    Yes

    General lookup tables

    Administrators Full Control System: 5  
    Email settings Administrators Full Control    
    Change notifications Administrators Full Control    
    AI Administrators Full Control    
    Settings Audit Administrators Full Control    

    Help

    Navigation Item Security Set Level Assignment License Required

    Documentation

    Everyone Full Control

     

     

    Support

    Everyone Full Control

     

     

    Learning Hub

    Everyone Full Control

     

     

    Marketplace All Staff Full Control    
    Enhance iMIS Everyone Full Control