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System Roles: Advanced Permissions

Learn about each Advanced Permission that can be granted in a System Role

Advanced Permissions

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Advanced System Role Permissions are not tied to any Template, Workflow, or Location. They are stand-alone Permissions that grant access to different Sections of KaiNexus. 

Advanced Permissions

Create Boards

Provides the ability to create and manage personal, private Boards

  • Most organizations give this permission to leaders, executives, and/or CI coaches.

Create Item Lists

Provides the ability to create and edit Item lists in the Items section.

  • Most organizations give this permission to leaders, executives, and/or CI coaches.

Share Item Lists

Provides the ability to share Item lists with other people, Network Locations, or Roles.

  • This option will only appear when Create Item Lists is enabled.
  • This permission is usually only given to individuals who will be creating meaningful Item Lists to share with different areas of the organization to help facilitate processes and workflows.

View Impact

Provides the ability to view the Impact of Items. A user will be able to see the impact of any Item of which they are on the Team. To view an Impact Report Card on a Board or any other Report Card, the person must also have the "View Reports" permission.

  • Most organizations give this permission to only leaders and/or improvement specialists. In order to promote transparency in KaiNexus though, frontline people will sometimes be given this permission in order to see the impact of their own work or the work of their Location.

View Report Data

Provides the ability to view Reports.

  • This permission is typically given to users of all Persona types. In order to limit transparency or simplify a Frontline person's experience, you may choose to not grant them this permission.

Show on Navigation Bar

Provides the ability to access the Reports section from the navigation bar.

  • This option will only appear when View Report Data is enabled. 
  • This permission is typically given only to leaders, executives, and/or CI coaches.
    Permission to view all of the Reports in the Reports section.

View People:

Provides the ability to access the People section from the navigation bar.

  • This permission is typically given only to leaders, executives, and/or CI coaches. Frontline people may also be given this permission to promote transparency in KaiNexus.

Enable Capacity

Ofie Profile PicImportant: This permission will only be available if your organization uses the Capacity Planning Module. 

Provides the ability to view and manage capacity information in the platform, including:

  • Setting the user's own Max Capacity
  • Viewing the user's own Capacity tab in their Activity window
  • Viewing Capacity Commitments on Items and in Item List columns
  • Editing Capacity Commitments on Items where the user has Edit permission
  • Viewing other users’ Current Capacity in People List columns and tooltips.

This permission is intended for users who need to manage their own Capacity Commitments as well as the commitments on Items they are leading. If someone does not have this permission, they won't see any capacity information in the platform.

Users who manage the capacity of others should be assigned the Capacity Administrator permission.

Next in Series

Now that you understand Advanced System Role Permission, we recommend preceding to the next article in this series about each Admin Permission that can be granted in a System Role. 

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