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 |

