As your Digital Factory organization grows, you will want to keep order by limiting who can do what. For example, if people mistakenly remove printers from the organization, it can be very confusing for others who wonder where their printers have disappeared to. To prevent these kinds of mistakes, we advise you to limit the permissions people have to only what they need to do their work. Organization admins can control the permissions users have by assigning roles to them.

Table of contents

General explanation of user roles

How to assign a role to a user

Permissions in detail

Printers

Print jobs

Cura

Library

Organization and teams

Other access points

General explanation of user roles

A user has permission to use a given feature when the following are true:

1. The user is in an organization that has the feature as part of a subscription (See our plans here)
2. The user has the proper user role (see the tables below) 
3. The user has have access to assets affected by the feature, such as printers, projects, and teams

The different kinds of roles a user can have are described below.

Admin:

• Has access to and can manipulate all printers, all shared projects, and all teams within the organization
• Can make changes to all printers, shared projects, and teams within the organization
• Is the only role that can invite people to the organization

Member:

• Has access to
  
  • Printers that are shared with them or those they added themselves to the organization
  • Projects that are shared with them or those they create themselves
  • Teams they create or those they are a member of
• Can make changes to printers and projects which are shared with them or their teams
• Can change the print jobs and projects from others
• Cannot invite people to the organization

Guest:

• Has access to
  • Printers that are shared with them
  • Projects that are shared with them or those they created themselves
  • Teams they are a member of
• Can start print jobs, create projects, and share projects
• Cannot change anything about printers, others print jobs, or projects
• Cannot invite people to the organization and not create teams

The guest user role is only available to organizations with a Professional, Excellence, or Education subscription plan.

Note: The description of the roles above is a rough summary, for detailed information see the permissions in detail section below.

How to assign a role to a user 

Only Admins can assign roles to users in Digital Factory. The steps are as follows:

1. Go to the organization page
2. Find the user in the list
3. Select the new role from the Role list in the drop-down list

Permissions in detail

Printers

The Guest role is intended for users who may print objects but are tasked with administrating the printer itself. The Member role allows more actions on the printer, except for those related to security such as enabling or disabling the firewall.

Permissions per role:

Print jobs & Notifications

The roles are designed so that users with the Member or Admin roles can plan print jobs and distribute them over printers. Guest users however would not be permitted to interfere with this planning or the print jobs from other users.

Permissions per role:

* "Own print jobs" are print jobs that are sent to Digital Factory by the user themselves either from Cura or within Digital Factory, or were reprinted by the user, or started from a project.

Library

The library projects are a way of sharing information about print jobs.

Permissions per role:

Organization & Teams

The Admin role is the only role permitted to invite users from outside the organization into the organization. Those with the Member role can then organize which users get access to printers and projects. This is done by grouping users into teams and sharing printers and projects. 

Permissions per role:

Other access points

• If you are logged into Digital Factory via Cura, then the same permissions are enforced as those in the Digital Factory website. Older versions of Cura don't inform the user that they don't have permission to use a certain feature. 
• There are no permissions set for the use of plugins or materials in their installation of Cura.
• Anyone can create an account for use with Digital Factory, Cura, Marketplace, etc. But an admin needs to invite them to the Digital Factory organization.
• There are no permissions that can be set by users in the Contributor Portal.
• The same permissions can apply for applications built on top of the Digital Factory API's as long as the user accounts and permission systems from the Digital Factory API's are used.