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RedactManager Documentation

Roles and permissions

RedactManager offers different user roles to ensure users can access the features based on their needs.

Roles: User, Manager, and Admin

Permissions: Dossier Owner, Approver, and Reviewer

User: Regular users can become dossier members.

Manager: Managers can become dossier members and manage dossiers (i. e., create dossiers and become dossier owners).

Admin: Admins have administrator rights for RedactManager. (Please see our Admin Manual to learn more about the admin settings and features.)

Dossier owner

Approver

Reviewer

Admin

User

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Manager

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Admin

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Dossier owner: The dossier owner manages the dossier, adds dossier members, and grants them the reviewer or the approver permission. (Only managers can become dossier owners.)

Human review of the automatically detected redactions follows the 4-eyes principle (2-step approval process):

Reviewer: performs the first level of review. Once assigned to a document, reviewers can edit and remove redactions and add manual redactions where necessary before passing on the document to an approver.

Approver: performs the second level of review. Once assigned to a document, approvers can edit and remove redactions and add manual redactions where necessary before giving final approval to the document.

The following table shows which features are available to users with the respective permission:

Feature

Permissions

Reviewer

Approver

Dossier owner

Create/delete/finish dossier; edit dossier properties

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Upload document to a dossier; open/read dossier documents

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Edit and remove redactions in documents; add manual redactions

(prerequisite: needs to be assigned to the document)

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Give final approval to the document

(prerequisite: needs to be assigned to the document)

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