🔐Roles

Roles are different from Groups in that they are only used determine what access a user account has to Lightpost.

Roles have only a couple, but important, purposes:

• Define who is a member of your congregation (see "indicates membership" below).

• Define permissions to parts of Lightpost for an individual.

• Allow for easy management to specific admin features, allowing delegation of responsibilities to specific parts of Lightpost.

☑️ "Indicates Membership"

There is an "Indicates Membership" option that can be enabled on any role.

By enabling this option on a role: anyone who is assigned this role will be able to login as a member to your Lightpost account.

Any user who is given a role with this option enabled now has access to all the normal features that are activated for your account. This includes the directory, prayer list, group posts, sermons, involvement, etc.

The "indicates membership" option does not grant any admin permissions.

Visitors

Lightpost does not offer any options to provide any level of access to visitors.

In terms of access: There are only members and non-members.

Permissions

For each role, there are a number of permissions that can be enabled/disabled.

‼️ It's important to note: most of these permissions are specific to Admin Access.

There is not the ability to limit what a normal member of your congregation sees or has access to. By selecting the "indicates membership" option for a role, this automatically grants them access to all standard member features, such as viewing the Directory, Prayer List, Group Posts, etc.