User Roles and Permissions Explained

Learn all about Roles and Permissions in E3 and how to manage them in the app.

Send Alerts: Allows users to send alerts.
Administrate: Enables users to manage active alerts, including ending, upgrading, and escalating them (reserved for admin users).
Approve Permits users to approve or deny alerts for approval-required alerts only (less common).
Skip Check-in: Grants users the ability to bypass mandatory check-in questions (where are you and are you safe) during an alert, this is typically for responders.

Send Message: Allows users to send chat messages (available to almost all users).
Delete Message: Enables users to delete chat messages (usually restricted to admin users).

This section only applies to users managing external responder accounts.

Manage Roles: Permits management of roles assigned to external parties or first responders.
Manage Members: Allows adding, removing, or modifying external members and their roles.

Check-In Users: Enables users to check in other users on the map (commonly used by admins, team leads, and managers).
Override Map: Permits overriding the map status to "danger" or "cleared" (restricted to admins and responders).

This section is only for admin users.

Alert History: Allows viewing past alerts, including chat history, alert analytics, and reports.
Manage Plans: Enables creating, editing, and deleting emergency plans.
Manage Roles: Permits creating, editing, or deleting roles (user types) and assigning permissions within each role.
Manage Members: Allows inviting new users, removing existing users, adding users to groups, or modifying their roles.
Manage Groups: Enables creating, editing, or deleting group names, maps, and relations (less commonly used, often managed by the E3 team).
Manage Alerts: Allows creating, editing, or deleting alert types, including names, icons, and settings (often shared across groups for consistency).