About Roles in User Design Groups

Account Admins use Assign Users to Groups panel to assign a Role to each member of a design group. Roles determine which of the basic model-sharing operations a member can perform.

• You can be in multiple design groups at the same time, in the same or a different role in each group.
• Admins can change your role among Publisher, Author, or Reader at any time.
• Admins can assign you the Admin role from the Set up Account Admins panel.

Table 1. Basic Operations and Design Group Roles

Basic Operations	Admin	Publisher	Author	Reader
Create and Administer (add, remove) design groups	YES	NO	NO	NO
Assign Roles to group members	YES	NO	NO	NO
Assign additional Admins to an InfraWorks 360 account	YES	NO	NO	NO
Publish models to the cloud for the first time	YES	YES	NO	NO
Download a model for the first time	YES	YES	YES	YES
Sync: send and get changes, contribute to synchronized version	YES	YES	YES	NO
Disconnect a local copy of a model from the online copy and group	YES	YES	YES	YES
Remove a model from the cloud	YES	YES	YES	NO
View and comment on a model, proposal, or scenario	YES	YES	YES	YES