Permissions and access levels
Administrators can change the community and invite users. Permissions give abilities to be moderators, and blog authors.
Anyone who interacts with Medallia Ideas is a user with permission to view challenges, review and vote on ideas posted by others, and post their own ideas. Additional permissions enhance user capabilities and classify the users.
- User
Users can view challenges, review and vote on ideas posted by others, and post their own ideas.
- Admin
Admins are responsible for the set-up and day-to-day running of an Medallia Ideas community. They control what the community looks like, who has access to it, and what users can engage with when they sign in.
Administrators are the only users who can see The Admin menu for managing the settings for a community.
Note: All administrators are "blog editors" and "moderators" of all Challenges.- Moderator
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Moderators are users who can manage the ideas in a Challenge. They can
Edit ideas (including idea tags and attachments)
Move ideas into another challenge (they must be moderators of both challenges)
Approve ideas
Advance ideas in a funnel challenge
Give ideas a status label
Remove ideas from a challenge
Moderators, assigned by administrators for specific Challenges, can edit, move, and approve ideas within their designated Challenges. Moderators can only manage the Challenges for which they specifically have permission.
Note: All administrators are "moderators" of all Challenges.For information about who can access a Challenge, and how to assign moderator permission to users of the Challenge, see Setting the access to your challenge.
- Blog editors
- Can write and edit blogs, and they can manage blog categories and move posts in the categories. Other users can only comment on and subscribe to blogs.
For information about assigning blog permissions to users, see Change blog contributor permissions.
- Remove Access/ Banned
- The user will no longer be able to sign into your community. If you have a private community, you will see 'Remove access' and if you have a public community, this option will say 'Banned'.
