Folder and chat room roles

You can assign users to folder and chat room roles that determine access levels and privileges.

Table 1. Folder roles and chat room roles in Sametime® AdvancedAssigning a user to a role in column 1 grants him or her the associated privileges described in column 2.
Role	Description
Administrator	This super user can manage the complete folder hierarchy Create, edit, delete, archive, restore, enable, disable all chat rooms. View all archived chat rooms. Create, edit, delete all global folders Move chat rooms from one global folder to another. Cannot delete the root Chat Rooms folder.
Folder Manager:	This user can do anything an Administrator can do, but only in the folder where he or she is a manager. Enter any chat room in a folder he manages. Create, edit, delete, archive, restore, enable, disable all chat rooms under the folders he manages. View all archived chat rooms under the folders he manages. Create, edit, delete all global folders under the folders he manages. Edit or delete the immediate folder. Move chat rooms from one global folder to another. He must have writing access to the two folders.
Folder Author	Enter the chat rooms that he or she created, in any folder. Create, edit, delete, enable, or disable chat rooms that he or she created, but only in the folder where he or she is an author. Move chat rooms from one global folder to another (requires authoring access to both folders). A folder author cannot edit or delete the folder.
Folder Reader	Enter a chat room if he or she is the owner or an invitee, or if the chat room has open access. View folders that have open access, and folders for which he or she is a member.
Chat Room Owner	Can enter chat room that he owns. Edit, delete, enable, or disable the chat room When choosing chat room owners, if the owner has no writing access to the folder that the chat room resides in, then system gives the owner writing access automatically. The owner will have writing access to the folder, but no access to other chat rooms in the folder, only the ones he creates. The owner will be only a reader of the parent folders previously.
Chat Room Invitee	Can enter chat room. Cannot edit, delete, archive, restore, enable or disable the chat room. After the chat room is created, he is a reader to all the folders he can navigate to in the chat room.
Unauthenticated User	This user has not logged in. Can view All Chat Rooms and Search tabs; cannot view the other tabs. Can only view folders which allow unauthenticated access. Can join chat rooms that are not limited to invitees, or logged in users. Can enter chat room details page.