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Configure Timeline permissions for groups

How to make sure your groups can see and write posts

Marie Xhauflair avatar
Written by Marie Xhauflair
Updated over 2 weeks ago

📋 What this article covers

  • How to enable the Timeline feature

  • How to give a group permission to use the Timeline

  • The difference between contributor and manager roles

  • What users can do in the Timeline


✅ Step 1: Enable the timeline feature

To turn on the Timeline functionality across your platform:

  1. Go to Settings > Features

  2. Scroll to Social learning

  3. Toggle on Social timeline


🔧 Step 2: Assign timeline roles to a group

Once the Timeline is enabled:

  1. Go to TinQwise Control > Groups

  2. Select the group you want to assign Timeline permissions to

  3. Open the Roles tab

  4. Click the blue Update group roles button

  5. In the User roles modal, there is: "Timeline contributor" and "Timeline manager"

    • Timeline contributor: Can post and comment in the group’s Timeline

    • Timeline manager: Can manage all posts and comments in the group’s Timeline

👀 Note:

Managers automatically have contributor rights as well.


🌟 Example

You want users to post in their team's timeline and the manager to manage the posts:

  • In the group "Users managed by Bobby Tyddelle"

    • Add specific role: Timeline contributor

  • Specific user: Bobby Tyddelle

    • Role: Timeline manager


🧠 How permissions work across groups

  • If you assign a Timeline role to Group A, for Group A, members can post in their own group Timeline

  • If you assign Group A a role for Group B, Group A members can post or manage Group B’s Timeline, but not the other way around

Example 2:

You want members of the Managers group to post updates in the Timeline of Group A (Sales Team):

  1. Go to Groups

  2. Select Sales Team (this is Group B)

  3. In the Roles tab, assign the Managers group the role Timeline contributor

Result:

  • Members of the Managers group can now post in the timeline of the Sales Team

  • The Sales Team cannot post in the Managers’ timeline (unless separately given permission)

🔥 Important:

  • This setup is useful for moderators or managers who need to oversee another group's timeline without posting in their own.


What can you do on the timeline?

  • Writing posts editing them and deleting them

  • Commenting on other people's posts

  • Embed links or gifs

  • Add attachments incl. images and videos

  • Add activity links

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