(Updated in September 2022)
Mbook provides several levels of access through user roles, limiting access depending on the position occupied by the individual user (Admin, Project Manager, Group Manager, Bench Chemist and Guest). In addition to these roles, Mbook offers the possibility of further customisation of permissions by allowing Group Managers to designate Safety, Inventory or Structure managers.
Permissions by role
If you are using Mbook Enterprise solution, in addition to the synthetic chemistry team, analysts and client users can be created. You can check these user roles and permissions in this article.
Administrator
This role is for authorised users in management roles and is key for the initial configuration of Mbook. A user with administrator rights is automatically created for new organizations when they start using Mbook (but we don’t charge a license for it). The administrator has all permissions granted to Group Managers, except it cannot create or work with projects, reactions or experiments. An administrator, however, can create groups that are completely independent from each other, something a Group Manager cannot do.
In the future, we expect the administrator role to become more important in Mbook, as we add functionalities that will require an authorised user to supervise them, like stockroom or the setting up of Audit trails.
Group Manager
The Group Manager role is for team leaders with management & lab responsibilities. The group manager can create users, groups, projects, reactions and experiments. In addition, it can assign extra permissions to other users so they are responsible for inventory, safety or structures.
When Mbook is used by organizations with a simple structure, only one group manager will be needed. Larger entities can replicate their internal organization by having several users designated as Group Managers.
Project Manager
This is a suitable role for staff members that own projects but are not in charge of teams and haven’t got management responsibilities. As such, Project Managers can create projects, reactions and experiments, but not users or groups. They can, however, assign an existing user to their projects. Project Managers can also witness and approve experiments.
Bench Chemist
This is a role designed to fit chemists that have neither management responsibilities nor ownership or projects. A Bench Chemist can create reactions and experiments, but not groups or users. They can also be witnesses of experiments.
Guest
This role was added to Mbook since version 2.1, following several requests from Contract Research Organizations (CROs). CROs wanted to be able to prove to potential clients their expertise in certain processes or to show existing customers progress on their projects with the CRO. With this in mind, Guests only have permission to see projects or groups that they have been granted access to.
