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Aconex Field project roles and permissions

Every person using Aconex Field has a project role, which comes with specific responsibilities and access privileges.

Field's project roles allow organisations to easily control and manage what your people can do in Aconex Field. There are two types of roles in Aconex Field – access roles and administrator roles.

Access roles

An access role allows a person to login to Aconex Field on a project, and determines what they can actually do on that project.

This table shows which permissions are associated with the various user roles available in Aconex Field. All participants in a project that has Field enabled will have Observer permissions by default.  

User roles Export issues / inspections View issues / inspections Capture issues / inspections Edit issues / inspections Assign issues / inspections Change status Close issues / inspections
Observer yes yes no no no no no
Assignee yes yes no no no yes no
Inspector yes yes yes yes* yes yes yes*

* Inspectors can only edit and close issues/inspections that their organization has created.

Tip!

Punchlists use the same permissions as issues. 

Daily report permissions are managed separately.

Inspector role

Inspectors are able to:

  • view issues that their organization has either created or been assigned, or which have been shared to their organization
  • view inspections that their organization has created or been assigned or which have been shared to their organization
  • generate reports
  • create, assign and reinspect issues
  • start and close inspections
  • edit and close issues that their organization has created    
  • send lists.

Assignee role

Assignees can:

  • view issues that their organization has either created or been assigned, or which have been shared to their organization
  • view inspections that their organization has created or been assigned or which have been shared to their organization
  • generate reports
  • rectify an issue by changing its status to 'Work done', to inform the Inspector the status of an issue that their organization has been assigned.

Observer role

Observers are able to:

  • view issues that their organization has either created or been assigned, or which have been shared with their organization
  • view inspections that their organization has created or been assigned or which have been shared to their organization
  • generate reports.

Administrator roles

Administrator roles allow a person to access their organization's settings for a project in Aconex Field.

Project Administrator role

Project Administrators are able to:

  • perform all actions under the Inspector role
  • manage the access to Aconex Field for people in their organization
  • manage the organizations their organization works with
  • create and edit the auto-suggest lists for their organization
  • create and edit areas for the project
  • create and edit issue types for the project
  • create and edit inspection templates for their organization
  • manage inspection templates across the project.

Inspector Administrator role

Inspector Administrators can:

  • perform all actions under the Inspector role
  • manage the access to Aconex Field for people in their organization, except Project Administrators
  • manage the organizations their organization works with
  • create and edit the auto-suggest lists for their organization
  • create and edit inspection templates for their organization
  • manage inspection templates across the project.

Assignee Administrator role

Assignee Administrators are able to:

  • perform all actions under the Assignee role
  • manage the access to Aconex Field for people in their organization (Assignee Administrators and roles below that).

Observer Administrator role

Observer Administrators can:

  • perform all actions under the Observer Role
  • manage the access to Aconex Field for people in their organization (Observer Administrators and Observers only).