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Set Custom Role Admin Permissions

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Custom roles allow admin access to a specific subset of employees or tools. Learn more about giving an employee full Lattice permissions by adding an admin in Lattice. 

  1. Navigate to Admin > Settings > People > Permissions. 
  2. Select Create custom role. 
  3. Under Role Assignment, enter the custom role's Role name and Role description.
  4. Add the Role members that will be given the additional permissions:
    • Create a new group or select an existing group 
    • Add individual employees
  5. Select Continue. 
  6. Under Company-wide Permissions, select the permissions the role owner(s) should have, which will allow role members to impact Lattice for all users > Continue OR Select Skip this step to move on to Targeted Permissions. 
  7. Under Targeted permissions, select the permissions the role owner(s) should have, which will allow role members to impact Lattice for a specific group of users. 
  8. To choose the Target Group: 
    • For all role owners: Choose the group using the filter.
    • For specific role owners: Check Each role member will need permissions for a different set of users > Select Criteria > Filter. 
  9. View the Summary to confirm the permissions granted.
  10. Select Save role.

Types of permissions

An admin can grant company-wide permissions that give the custom role owner(s) permission to make a change that affects the whole platform.

Company-wide permissions can be set for the following tools:

An admin can grant targeted permissions that apply to groups of employees for the following tools:

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