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Background Manager plans and permissions

Updated by Herman Phillips

Plans

The Background Manager is available on Studio and Enterprise plans. On other plans, the Background icon isn't shown. If your production moves off a Studio or Enterprise plan, your existing groups are kept, but you can't create or change groups.

Permissions

Two permissions control the Background Manager. You'll find them under Operations when you create or edit a custom role:

  • View Background Manager: see the Background Manager and its groups.
  • Edit Background Manager: create, rename, split, move, reorder, ungroup, and auto-group background groups, and change headcount, union and non-union split, hours, and notes. Turning on Edit also turns on View.

Default roles:

  • Owner, Admin, Editor: view and edit.
  • Viewer, Billing Administrator: view only.
  • Breakdown Editor: no Background Manager access.

A few related actions use other permissions:

  • Changing an element's quantity from the Background Manager needs breakdown edit access.
  • Changing background rates and fringes needs permission to edit production settings.
  • Creating a Background Breakdown report needs permission to create reports.

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