How to give a user Editor or Administrator Privileges

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To give a user editor or administrator privileges, an administrator must head to the Users & Permissions page, more details here, and add the users to the employee access table. 

 

Prerequisites

 

  • Administrator access on Vanta

 

Procedure

 

  1. To add a user simply click the "Choose User" text box to bring up the search drop-down menu:
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  2. Enter the name of the desired user you wish to give administrator or editor permissions to, and click them from the drop-down:

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  3. The drop-down menu will disappear, next to it, you will see the user is automatically given editor permissions by default. If you wish to have them remain an editor, proceed to step five.
    To elevate them to administrator, click the menu box that says 'Editor:

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  4. A drop-down menu will appear, where you can select the administrator permission set:

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  5. Once finished, click "+Add" to add them to the table:

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Common Issues

 

If you do not see the "Choose user", admin, and +Add buttons:
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And your page looks like this, you do not have administrator privileges:

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