Pressbooks Permissions Defined
Users can be assigned to one of the following roles within an individual book project: Administrator, Editor, Author, Collaborator, or Subscriber. Each of these user roles provides different levels of access, as described in the table below:
| Dashboard Link | Administrator | Editor | Author | Collaborator | Subscriber |
| Organize | √ | √ | √ | √ | x |
| Private/ Public setting (Organize) | √ | x | x | x | x |
| Book Info | √ | x | x | x | x |
| Appearance | √ | √ (but no “Themes”) | x | x | x |
| Export | √ | √ | √ | √ | x |
| Plugins | √ | x | x | x | x |
| Media | √ | √ | √ | x | x |
| Users | √ | x | x | x | x |
| Tools | √ | √ | √ | √ | x |
| Settings | √ | x | x | x | x |
| Import | √ | √ | √ | √ | x |
Only users with the role of Administrator in a book can install H5P content types from a book’s H5P hub. Administrators, Editors, Authors and Collaborators are able to create new H5P activities using installed content types.
Editing Rights
Although Authors and Collaborators are only able to add and edit their own chapters, ownership can be re-assigned.
- It is always possible for Administrators or Editors in a book (or network managers on the network) to re-assign the ‘Owner’ for a given chapter or front/back matter from its Edit page,.
- Use the dropdown menu in the Owner box at the bottom of the page (below the Visual / Text editor and Chapter Metadata).
- Any users belonging to the book with a role higher than Subscriber may be assigned as the ‘Owner’ of a chapter. This tool can be used to give an Author or Collaborator edit access to a chapter that they themselves did not create.
Attribution
Adapted from Users section in Pressbooks User Guide by Pressbooks published under a CC BY licence.
