Group Administrator Capabilities
Each SwissMetrics group has 3 member types to set depending on planned use of SwissMetrics:
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Group Administrator (“Group Admin”)
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Standard Member (“Can Contribute”)
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Basic Member (“Basic Access Only”)
This article will explain the capabilities of a Group Administrator.
At a summary level, a Group Administrator has the capability in the following areas:
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Group Members - Create, Invite, Assign Capabilities, View & Remove Group Members
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Group Trash - View & Manage Deleted Content
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Group Settings - Setup, Manage and Change
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Group Home - Setup View for all Group Members
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Group Content - Creation, Permissions, Tags across Tools

The following outlines the above capabilities of these areas and tools within a Group:
Group Members Capabilities:
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Group Members Area: Access to see Group Members area
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Manage Members: Update member capabilities in Member Profile
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Create Members: Ability to invite or Assign new members
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Remove Members: Can remove a member from the Group
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Export Member List: Ability to get CSV export of members
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Group Trash Capabilities:
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Can view content in trash
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Can restore delete items
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Can permanently delete items

Group Settings Capabilities:
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View all settings from Group creation
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Can edit branding & visual appearance
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Can restrict group
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Can edit Group Tools to enable or disable their access on Group's left-hand navigation
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Can edit Notification Settings
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Can edit Advanced Settings
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Can export group data

Group Home Capabilities:
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Edit Widgets - Can clink of Edit Widgets to access mode to change the layout of the Group's Home by adding, moving, editing & removing widgets
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Edit - Once note or widgets are added to the home, can make edits to that content directly
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Create announcements

Group Content Capabilities by Tool Type:
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Files
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Notes
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Discussions
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Events
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Tasks
Files Capabilities:
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Can add a new folder with permissions
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Upload files
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Download/delete/cut & copy files
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Can update folder permissions
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Can download documents
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Upload a new version of the document
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Edit existing folders (delete, cut, copy, follow, sign, lock, guest share)
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Can add annotations/print
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Post comments, guest share, see previous activity, tag people, see older versions, create tasks linked to the doc, request approval and add signatures
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Can delete comments
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Can organise folder previews, e.g last modified, size
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Can set file permissions



Notes Capabilities:
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Can add new notes
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Edit existing notes
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Access note settings
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Guest Share, see previous activity, tag others, add attachments, see older versions & set permissions
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Post comments on notes

Discussions Capabilities:
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Can create a new discussion
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Reply to existing discussions unless the discussion has been made private and the group administrator has not been assigned to it.
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Tag people
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See previous activity
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Add attachments
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Can set permissions
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Guest Share


Events Capabilities:
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Can add a new entry
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Edit existing event details, e.g time and date
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Can force attendee’s to confirm or decline
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Sent reminders for the event
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Make the event recurring
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Can invite and remove assignee’s
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Guest Share, See previous activity, tag others, add attachments, see older versions & set permissions


Task Capabilities:
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Can add new categories
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Filter date/time & assignee for categories
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Can filter to show all completed tasks
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Download tasks
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Can update progress of task
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Ability to add tasks to existing categories
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Edit existing tasks inc time, date, assignees, reminders, recurrences and status
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Delete/unfollow existing tasks
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Post comments, guest share, see activity, tag people, add attachments & set permissions
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Can select a task, multiple tasks or task category to copy & then paste into another group where they are a Group Administrator or a Content Contributor

