Permissions
This page is for
Organizational Administrators | Unit Leads | Individual subscribers | Cochrane users
Permissions around roles
Organizational administrators can grant different roles to users. Roles have the following permissions:
Centrally managed roles (invited through RevMan portfolio pages) | Only available in Cochrane organization | Sponsored individual subscriber (registered online) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Organizational Administrator | Unit Lead | Author | Write access to Cochrane portfolio | Read access to Cochrane portfolio | ||
| View reviews in the organization | All in organization | All in unit | If named as author | Yes | Yes | No |
| Edit reviews in the organization | All in organization | All in unit | If named as author | Yes | No | No |
| Search for reviews in the organization | All in organization | All in unit | No | Yes | Yes | No |
| Create reviews owned by the organization | Yes | Yes * | No | No | No | No |
| Create reviews owned by the individual | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Invite others to collaborate on a review | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| Create units | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Manage project management features | Yes | No | No | No | No | No |
| Add or update tasks | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| Access to portfolio pages | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Access to individually owned reviews | No | No | No | No | No | Yes |
* Organizational administrators can choose to remove this ability from all unit leads. See Change organization settings.
If sponsored subscriptions are enabled, any organizational administrator or unit lead can also register for a sponsored subscription to allow them to create reviews outside of their organization's portfolio.
Someone with multiple roles can switch between roles to enable the permissions they wish to use.
Only organization administrators can view all roles that a person holds within the organization. See Roles.
Permissions around authorship
Please note that authorship changes can be made if the review has an active project. Certain functionalities will be disabled while the review is inactive.
| Cochrane Reviews managed in RevMan portfolio and project management | Organisational subscribers | Individual subscribers | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Change author order | Unit leads | Unit leads Organization administrators Authors | Subscription owner |
| Change Contact Person | Unit leads Organization administrators (Cochrane Support) | Unit leads Organization administrators | N/A |
| Add author affiliations | Unit leads Organization administrators (Cochrane Support) Authors | Unit leads Organization administrators Authors | Subscription owner |
| Amend author affiliations | Unit leads Organization administrators (Cochrane Support) Authors | Unit leads Organization administrators Authors | Subscription owner |
| Add footnotes to show joint authorship | Unit leads Organization administrators (Cochrane Support) Authors | Unit leads Organization administrators Authors | Subscription owner |
| Add/Remove authors | Unit leads Organization administrators (Cochrane Support) | Unit leads Organization administrators | Subscription owner |
| Move between author and author support | Unit leads | Unit leads Organization administrators | Subscription owner |