A user's profile determines the level of access within the organization. Zoho Projects classifies profiles into two categories.
Profiles can be created and customized to define permission sets and assign them to a particular group of users based on their role. Profiles can be configured by the Portal Owner and any user can be given the relevant permission to create and customize profiles. We also have some default profiles to get you started.
The default Employee and Contractor profiles can be renamed.
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Use cases
Construction: The owner of the construction company will need full access to all the projects. So the owner should be the 'Admin'. The site engineer will need access only for the assigned projects. So, a custom profile and permissions can be created for the site engineer with the profile name 'Engineer'.
Software development/ IT: Manager of the organization need to have access to all the team member's tasks under them while the team members should access only their own tasks. With Profiles, you can limit access based on their profile.
Event planner: The event organizer should have access to all the tasks in the project, while the workers should have access only to their tasks. Setting permissions based on the profiles will limit the access to the individuals.
Benefits
- Create custom profiles and set access privileges
- Set different permissions for portal users and client users
- Customize permissions at module level
- Clone profiles
Feature Availability: User based Enterprise plan.
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