About Esri Community Roles and Permissions
Community permissions are attached to Roles in the community. Each role has a distinctive set of permission that apply across the community (they are not applied at the place/ board level). Roles are tied to Ranks, this is what is visible in the community on a member’s profile, their rank level. The Register User and Esri role are default roles that are auto assigned upon account creation or as part of the initial migration. All other roles are either manually assigned, or in the case of Active User graduated to base on a community action.
Our Community Roles:
- Registered User
- Active User
- BlogAuthor
- MVP
- Esri
- Place Manager
- Ideas Manager
- Community Moderator
Registered User
Registered Users are new community members, this is the default role assigned at entry to community until a user makes their first post.
These users have permission to do the following:
- Submit new post
- Edit own post
- Post Ideas
- Comment on Blogs, Docs, Ideas
- Use @ mentions
- Give kudos
- Add tags, labels to own post
- View badges
- Report Abuse/ inappropriate content
*Rank titles for Registered User – New Member thru Avid Explorer
Active User
Active Users are community members who have created their first post, which graduates them from Registered User to Active User. Active users have permission to do all the tasks for Registered User role PLUS:
- Use private messenger
- Upload images, videos
- Add signature to profile
- Use simple HTML in posts
- Start a new draft document, that requires approval for publishing
*Rank titles for Active User – New Contributor thru Esteemed Contributor
BlogAuthor
Blog Authors are members who have permission to blog. They have permission to do all the tasks for Active User role PLUS:
- Post a new blog
- Manager comments on own blog
MVP
MVPs (Most Valuable Participants) are elite community members or super users. They have permission to do all the tasks for Active User role PLUS:
- View edit history of a post
- Delete own posts, docs and blogs
- Allowed to use advanced HTML in posts
- Move posts
- Accept or retract solutions
- Post a new blog
- Manager comments on own blog
- Create, edit and publish documents
- Create and edit events
- Bypass automatic spam rejection
- Ability to moderate and move Ideas, documents and questions to spam bin
- Use multi-user message option (for private messages)
- Export Search results to CSV
- Ability to share posts across multiple Boards by using the Share Tool feature
*Rank titles for MVP – MVP Regular Contributor thru MVP Esteemed Contributor
Esri
Esri role is for Esri Inc staff and Esri global distributor staff community members. They have permission to do all the tasks for Active User role PLUS:
- View edit history of a post
- Delete own posts, docs and blogs
- Allowed to use advanced HTML in posts
- Accept or retract solutions
- Post a new blog
- Manager comments on own blog
- Create, edit and publish documents
- Nominate posts to be converted to document
- Use multi-user message option (for private messages)
- Export Search results to CSV
- Do have permissions to view and post Ideas in ArcGIS Internal Ideas
*Rank titles for Esri – Esri Regular Contributor thru Esri Esteemed Contributor
Esri Alum
This new role is designed for former Esri team members whose accounts and post history live on in Esri Community, but are no longer active. This role will additionally feature a reduced set of permissions that include preventing Direct Messages from being sent to them (the accounts are not monitored) and removal from Top Contributor leaderboards. Role added September 2024.
Place Manager
Place Manager role is assigned to community members who oversee a specific place in the community, generally an Esri Staff or Distributor. They have permission to do all the tasks for Esri role PLUS:
- Move posts
- Float /pin posts for all users (at board level)
- Mark topic/posts read only
- Post read-only topics
- Approve draft blogs
- Approve draft documents
- Feature/ stop featuring documents
- Do not have permission to post new ideas
*Rank titles for Place Manager – Esri Regular Contributor thru Esri Esteemed Contributor
Ideas Manager
Ideas Manager role is assigned to Esri Staff community members who oversee an Ideas Exchange or a specific Label within an Ideas Exchange in the community. They have permission to do all the tasks for Esri role PLUS:
- Move posts
- Float /pin posts for all users (at board level)
- Manage Ideas/ Comments
- Approve, reject, recall Ideas comments
- Change the status of ideas
- Do not have permission to post new ideas
*Rank titles for Ideas Manager – Esri Regular Contributor thru Esri Esteemed Contributor
Deactivated User
The Deactivated User role is applied to any accounts that have been de-activated (banned) for various reasons, one reason is due to spam or abuse. Accounts with this role have no permissions or access.
Varying levels of admin permission are provided to (these roles are reserved for Community Team members and designated Esri staff):
- Community Team
- Community Manager (full admin permissions)
