Administrative permissions

Use Flow permissions to control user and role access to administrative functions within the platform. This article outlines some of the permissions available to assign in Flow.

On this page:

1 Manage Organization
2 Manage Login Settings
3 Manage User Permissions
4 Manage Users & Teams
5 Manage User Invites
- 5.1 Best Practices for user invite permissions
6 Manage Calendars
7 Manage Roles
8 Manage Targets
9 Manage API Keys
10 Manage Configurations
11 Manage Commits
12 Manage Integrations
13 Manage Email Reporting
14 Manage Group Programming Settings
15 Manage Slack Integration

On this page:

1 Manage Organization
2 Manage Login Settings
3 Manage User Permissions
4 Manage Users & Teams
5 Manage User Invites
- 5.1 Best Practices for user invite permissions
6 Manage Calendars
7 Manage Roles
8 Manage Targets
9 Manage API Keys
10 Manage Configurations
11 Manage Commits
12 Manage Integrations
13 Manage Email Reporting
14 Manage Group Programming Settings
15 Manage Slack Integration

Manage Organization

Users with Manage Organization access can:

Set default view rights.
Enable advanced view rights.

Manage Login Settings

Users with Manage Login Settings can manage SSO/SAML integrations for their workspace.

Manage User Permissions

Users with Manage User Permissions can:

View the user list and all users’ details pages.
Assign a role to a user.
Update their own permissions to any level.
Update a user’s view rights.

Manage user permissions doesn’t provide the ability to manage a user’s team membership or aliases.

Manage Users & Teams

Users with Manage Users & Teams can:

View the user list and all users’ details pages.
Edit user details.
Include/exclude users from metrics.
Merge users and manage user aliases.
Assign any role to a user.
Manage users’ team memberships.
Create, edit, manage, and delete teams.

Manage User Invites

Users with Manage User Invites can invite users to Flow. This includes inviting users to log in and removing users.

Best Practices for user invite permissions

Flow admins should be able to invite users, edit permissions, and edit roles. They need the following permissions:

Manage Roles
Manage User Invites
Manage User Permissions
Manage Users & Teams

Manage Calendars

Users with Manage Calendars can create and edit calendars and events.

Manage Roles

Users with Manage Roles can add and delete roles from the roles page.

Manage Targets

Users with Manage Targets can set metric-level targets from Team health insights and Review collaboration.

Manage API Keys

Users with Manage API Keys can access and manage API keys.

Manage Configurations

Users with Manage Configurations can:

Modify and adjust report preferences
Adjust general account configurations
Update advanced outlier detection settings

Manage Commits

Users with Manage Commits can manually mark any commit as an outlier or a group commit in the Work log report.

Learn more about how to manually mark a commit as an outlier or a group commit.

Manage Integrations

Users with Manage Integrations can control data for integrations, repos, PR projects, and ticket projects.

Carefully configure Manage Integrations to prevent users from accidentally deleting data.

There are three levels of the Manage Integrations permission:

View only: You can see integrations, repos, PR projects, and ticket projects, but can’t perform any actions on these pages.
View and manage: You can see integrations, repos, PR projects, and ticket projects, and can perform most actions on these pages. You can remove repos, but can’t delete an integration.
View, manage, and delete: You can see integrations, repos, PR projects, and ticket projects, and can perform any actions on these pages, including deleting integrations.

Manage Email Reporting

Grant access to email reporting to let you generate, schedule, and send a report for offline viewing.

Manage Group Programming Settings

Adjust settings for group commits. You must also have the Manage configurations permission.

Learn more about group programming.

Manage Slack Integration

Grant access to create a Slack integration and set up when and where messages will post in your Slack channels.