Roles at a glance

Every member of a project has one of four roles:

• project admin: runs the project, its reviews and its members.
• writer: raises markups and proposes solutions.
• reader: reads and comments.
• client: the approval partner on large projects, who accepts or refuses solutions.

Action	project admin	writer	reader	client
Raise a markup	yes	yes	no	no
Comment	yes	yes	yes	yes
Post a solution candidate	yes	yes	no	no
Accept or refuse a candidate, internal review	yes	no	no	no
Accept or refuse a candidate, external review	yes	no	no	yes
Reopen a solved markup, internal review	yes	no	no	no
Reopen a solved markup, external review	yes	no	no	yes
Delete a markup	yes	no	no	no
Add or revoke writers, readers and clients	yes	no	no	no
Create and rename reviews, open, close and hide them	yes	no	no	no
Download the .hdmark file of a review you can see	yes	yes	yes	yes
Edit your own name, title and password	yes	yes	yes	yes

• Raising and commenting need the review to be open. A closed review is read-only for everyone.
• When the licence of the project has expired, the project is read-only for everyone until it is renewed. See When a licence expires.
• All seats are included: a project has unlimited members. The Mini plan has 1 writer and 1 reader and no client seats.
• Another project admin is added by your company’s administrator, see IT and deployment notes.

Related

Internal and external reviews, The approval workflow, What each role sees in Navisworks.