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User Permissions Matrix

What can each user type do in Mediatool?

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Written by Simon Dhersigny
Updated over a week ago

Roles, Access, and Control

Refer to the list below to explore the access levels and capabilities assigned to each user type in Mediatool.

Admin

Subsidiary Admin

Editor

Viewer

Top Bar

Search bar

Contact support

User Icon

User Settings

Help Center

Notification Center

Ways of Working (upon client's request)

Release Notes

Hub

Conversations

View

Add message

Reply

Edit message

Unsubscribe from conversation

Delete message

Other features

Recently viewed plans

Subsidiaries (viewing parent account, with access)

Last created plans

Create new plan button

Recently viewed dashboards & reports

Create your first widget

Contextual menu

Conversations

Changelog

Convention

MediatoolGPT

Access MediatoolGPT

Query data via MediatoolGPT

View query history

Add predefined questions in MediatoolGPT settings

Targets

View

Timeline - Create target

Overview - Create target

Target overview - view

Filter target in target overview

Target timeline - view

Changelog - view

View Target

Edit target

Open & view Target entry

View Target - popup

Change date range

Settings - edit view settings

Filter Targets

Send targets for approval

Approve reject/targets

Media Overview

Calendar view

Export

Open view settings active

Filter by media data

Filter active

Clear filter active

Bookmark - create

Sheet view

Filter by media data

Bookmark - create

Create order

Export

Settings - open

Settings - update all

Input/Delete data

Import data

Delivery plan

Bookmark - create

Export

Filter by media data

Mark as delivered

View - Not delivered

Delivered

Show all

Split by media type

Results

Add new entry

Import data from file - button

Filter by date

Settings

Reports

Reports charts - view

Reports charts - select different report

Add report

Edit global report

Edit public report

Edit own report

Full screen

Export

Files

View folders

Toggle off empty folders

View files

Download file

Import file

Subsidiaries

Select another subsidiary

Display subsidiaries

Create Subsidiary

Settings

General

Users & Roles

Users and Roles - view all

Users and Roles - edit roles

Add users

Remove users

Create/Edit/Delete Teams

Add/remove Team Members

Manage protected tags & restricted fields

View teams permissions

Explanation of roles

Plugins

Media types and Fields

Add/Edit/Delete Media Types

Media inventory at Parent Level

Configure Overall Media Inventory Structure & Layout

Restrict Media Inventory Access to Read Only

Modify Media Inventory (Add, Edit, Delete)

⚠️ They can, if given Editor access to the Parent account (a Subsidiary Admin may have Viewer access to the Parent account).

⚠️ If read only access is toggled off


Media inventory at Subsidiary Level

Add/Edit/Delete elements specific to Subsidiary level inventory

⚠️ They can, unless the "Read-only access for editors" is enabled at the Parent level.

Media vehicles at Parent Level

Add, Edit, and Delete Media Vehicles

⚠️ They can, if given Editor access to the Parent account (a Subsidiary Admin may have Viewer access to the Parent account).

Merge Vehicles

⚠️ They can, if given Editor access to the Parent account (a Subsidiary Admin may have Viewer access to the Parent account).

Disable Media Vehicles

Media vehicles at Subsidiary Level

Add, Edit, and Delete Media Vehicles within the subsidiary scope

Merge Vehicles from subsidiary scope

Disable Media Vehicles from subsidiary scope

Tags at Parent Level

Tags - import data from file

⚠️ Providing they have been given Editor access to the Parent account (a Subsidiary Admin may have Viewer access to the Parent account).

Add tag

⚠️ Providing they have been given Editor access to the Parent account (a Subsidiary Admin may have Viewer access to the Parent account).

Disable tag

⚠️ Providing they have been given Editor access to the Parent account (a Subsidiary Admin may have Viewer access to the Parent account).

Delete tag

Create tag category

Add sub category

Tag catagory settings

⚠️ Read-only


⚠️ Read-only


Lock tag category

Add description

Hide tag category from plan set up

Require tag category

Tags at Subsidiary Level

Add local tag

Disable local tag

Disable tag created at Parent Level (from Subsidiary)

Delete local tag

Delete tag created at Parent Level (from Subsidiary)

Make local tag global

Lock tag category created at Parent Level (from Subsidiary)

Approval flow

Configure Approval Flow

Set approval steps (e.g., Working → Approved)

Enable resolution comments

Set rule-based conditiondial approvals

Assign approvers

Use Direct Approvals

Plan fields

Create plan fields

Delete plan fields

Naming conventions

Edit naming convention

Generated codes

Copy selected

Create Generated codes

Media Orders

General terms and conditions update text

External data

Integrations

Add integration

Manage integration

Danger Zone

Delete organisation

Subsidiary level only

Media orders

Show documents / templates toggle

Filter table

Cost estimate - view

Settings - file history

Settings - Edit name

Settings - Delete cost estimate

Step 1 - Select data

Step 2 Add information

Step 3 Send or download (download selected)

Step 3 Send or download (send selected)

Plans

General Plan Access

Create, modify, or delete folder hierarchies (Global & Subsidiary level)

Set default folder hierarchy (Global or Subsidiary)

Create and manage private folder hierarchies

View plans within folder hierarchy

Calendar view

Filter by media data

Export

Settings - open

Version

Save as a version

Compare version

Plan version history

Sheet View

Filter by media data

Bookmark - create

Create order

Export

Settings - open

Settings - update all

Input/Delete data

Import data

Version

Save as a version

Compare version

Plan version history

Plan Approval

Send for approval

Set plan status (Working, Pending, Approved, Rejected)

Export

View settings

View settings defaults

Select layout

Sort order

Select timeline preferences

Personal plan settings

Select grain

Select measure

Select hierachy


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