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Permissions & Access Control

A full breakdown of permissions in the Task Manager — what admins vs members can do, task-level and action-level access, and portfolio restrictions.

Who can see and do what in the Task Manager

Your permissions in the Task Manager depend on two things: your Kolleno role and your relationship to the task. These work as a two-tier system. Your Kolleno role sets the ceiling. Your task relationship determines what you can do within that ceiling.


Tier 1 — Your Kolleno Role

Admins

Admins have full access to everything in the Task Manager, regardless of their relationship to any individual task. They don't need to be the owner, a collaborator, or even involved in a task to view it, edit it, dismiss it, or reassign it.

In short: if you're an Admin, the task relationship rules below don't apply to you.

Members

Members' permissions are determined by their relationship to each task. The same user can have full edit access on one task or limited access on another, depending on their role on each.


Tier 2 — Your Relationship to the Task (Members only)

There are three possible relationships a Member can have to a task:

Relationship

Who this is

Owner

The primary user responsible for resolving the task.

Collaborator (Action Assignee)

A user who has been added to the task to complete actions within it.

No relationship

A Member with no connection to the task.

Task-Level Permissions — what each relationship can do

Action

Owner

Collaborator

No relationship

View task

Edit task priority

Edit task category

Edit task date due

Update task status

Create actions

Reassign to another customer

Add / remove collaborators

Transfer ownership


Action-Level Permissions

Within a task, each individual action has its own permission layer. This applies to both Admins and Members. Your access to an action depends on your relationship to that action — not just to the task.

Capability

Task Owner

Action Creator

Action Assignee

No relationship

Edit meta (due date, instructions, assignee)

Access the editor (send / save content)

Discard / delete the action

✅ if draft

✅ if draft

✅ if draft

Update action status

View the action

Restricted view: If you have no claim on an action, you can still see it — but only a summary: the title, assignee, due date, and instructions. You cannot open the editor or see the content.


Unowned Tasks

If a task has no owner, any Member in the company can view and edit it, or add actions under it — this is how tasks become self-assignable from the queue. Admins can assign to anyone; Members can only self-assign.


Portfolio Access

If your company has portfolio access enabled, you can only see tasks belonging to customers in your assigned portfolio. This applies across every view in the Task Manager — the queue, search, table view, and custom tabs.


Collaborator Lifecycle

Adding or removing a collaborator doesn't delete their record — it soft-deletes it. This preserves the audit trail.

Event

What happens

User added as collaborator

Active — full collaborator permissions apply

User removed as collaborator

Soft-deleted — read-only access retained for historical reference

User re-added

Existing record reactivated — no duplicate created

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