We offer several different types of permissions on monday.com—account permissions, workspace permissions, board types, board permissions, and column permissions. In this article, we'll dive into the available board permissions or restrictions, which are meant to give the owner of the board control over what information can be changed or viewed on the board level.

 

Setting up board permissions

• Step 1: pick your board owners

Before setting up board permissions, you need to decide who will be the owner(s) of your board. By default, the first owner is the person that created the board. To add more owners, click on the people "Invite" icon located on the upper right of your board:

 

From there, click on the greyed crown to the right of a user's name to make that person a board owner. Clicking the grey crown will turn the crown blue. A blue crown indicates that this user can now bypass any board permissions in place. 

 

• Step 2: Choose your permissions

To add board permissions, click on the three-dot menu located on the upper right corner of your board. Then select "Board permissions" from the resulting menu as so:

 

You will then reach the permissions center where you can select the type of permissions you'd like to apply to your board.

 

After enabling any board permissions, you can easily understand the enabled permissions on your board and locate the permissions center by clicking on the lock icon at the top of your board and then clicking on "View permissions settings".

 

What are the different permission types?

When it comes to setting up board permissions, you can choose to set either editing permissions and/or viewing permissions (available on the Enterprise plan only). Let's explore both the viewing and editing permissions that are available! ⬇️

 

Board editing permissions

With the board editing permissions, you have four different options available: edit everything on the board, edit the board's content without changing its structure, only edit items or subitems that users are assigned to, and write updates on items only.

Let's explore what each option means, below!

 

1. Edit everything on the board

The default setting on every board is "Edit everything on the board". For shareable and private boards, this means that every board member is able to change the content and structure of the board, add new items, edit column names, change statuses, and create updates. For main boards, these actions are available to every member of the account, even if they aren't subscribed to the board.

 

• Automations & Integrations
  This permission setting also allows users to create new recipes, toggle off/on recipes created by others, and delete recipes created by others. They cannot, however, edit another person’s recipes, save any automation recipe as a template, or edit the authentication on an integration recipe unless they are a board owner.

 

2. Edit the board's content without changing its structure

This permission allows non-board owners to add items, delete items, change statuses and cells on the board, move items across the board, and create item updates. They are not able to edit the group or column titles or rearrange the structure of the board by moving groups or columns. If you want to collaborate on a project with an external guest on a shareable board but make sure that a column won't accidentally be deleted or rearranged, this setting is ideal. 

 

• Automations & Integrations

This permission setting also allows users to create new recipes, toggle off/on recipes created by others, and delete recipes created by others. They cannot, however, edit another person’s recipes, save any automation recipe as a template, or edit the authentication on an integration recipe unless they are a board owner.

 

3. Only edit items or subitems that users are assigned to

This permission, available on the Pro plan and above, allows anyone who isn't a board owner to only edit the content of the items assigned to them. When selecting this option, the board owner will need to select which People Column they would like to use when setting up the permissions.

Additionally, the board owner can also choose whether they would like users to be able to edit subitems that they are assigned to (regardless of their items) or not. 

 

• Automations & Integrations

With the "edit by assignee" permission, only board owners will be able to add, edit, and delete automation and integration recipes. This is true regardless of whether or not the user (who is not an owner) created the recipe in the past.

 

4. Write updates on items only

With this permission, only owners of your board are able to change the structure and the content of the board. Every other user is only able to view the board, view and download files from the File Column, and write updates (as well as edit and delete updates that they’ve written).

This setting is really helpful if you want a customer to be able to only view a shareable board and stay up-to-date on the progress of the project! It’s also great if you’re managing a directory or other view-only resource internally.

 

• Automations & Integrations

Only board owners will be able to add, edit, and delete automation and integration recipes. This is true regardless of whether or not the user (who is not an owner) created the recipe in the past.

 

Item viewing permissions

Available only on the Enterprise plan, item viewing permissions allow board owners to decide whether they'd like all users with access to this board to be able to view all items on it, or whether users will be able to see only the items assigned to them. This provides another layer of control and ensures collaboration in one space, without jeopardizing access to sensitive data!

 

From the same board permissions center, you'll see the two viewing permissions available for you to choose from. We'll dive into what each option means right below!

 

1. View all items on the board

This is the default option and it will allow anyone with access to the board to view all items on it.

 

2. View only items that are assigned to users or created by them in any "People" column"

This permission setting will ensure that users who have been assigned to an item in any of the people columns on this board will be able to view only those specific items and nothing else. Additionally, the creator of an item will be able to view those specific ones, and the board owner(s) will be able to view all items on the board.

 

 

And that's a wrap! We hope that this article was useful in discovering how board editing and viewing permissions can help you take control on what information can be changed or viewed on the board level. 🙌

 

 

 

If you have any questions, please reach out to our team right here. We’re available 24/7 and happy to help.